Contact

Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA)
Quantum, Vesilinnantie 5
FI-20014 University of Turku
Finland
Tel:  +358 29 450 4516​
email:  finca@utu.fi

Personnel

Petri Väisänen PhD, Director

Research interests:

galaxy evolution, interacting galaxies, starbursts & AGN, young massive stellar clusters, observational optical and infrared astronomy

Kari Nilsson PhD, Docent, Vice director

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Research interests:

AGN/QSO host galaxies, AGN monitoring, time series analysis, image processing, polarimetry

Roberto De Propris PhD, Researcher

Research interests:

galaxy evolution, milky way structure and formation, galaxy mergers, globular clusters

Bela Dixit Researcher
PhD

Research interests:

radio astronomical instrumentation and digital signal processing

Vandad Fallah Ramazani PhD, postdoctoral researcher

Research interests:

Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy, blazars

Grigori Fedorets PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher

Research interests:
small Solar System bodies, in particular VIS-NIR observations of close-approaching NEAs

Pasi Hakala PhD, docent

Research interests:

artificial intelligence applications to astronomy, compact binaries, optical variability surveys

Johanna Hartke PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow

Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, Galaxy dynamics, Planetary nebulae, Integral-field spectroscopy, Adaptive optics

Talvikki Hovatta PhD, Academy researcher

Research interests:

blazars, radio astronomy, multiwavelength-observations

Jenni Jormanainen M.Sc., doctoral candidate

blazars, multiwavelength observations, optical polarization, very high energy gamma-ray astronomy

Tuomas Kangas PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow

Research interests: supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, progenitor stars and host galaxies of transients

Kelly Kelder MSc student

Research interests :

Large Scale Structure, galaxy clusters, brightest cluster galaxies, galaxy evolution and stellar populations.

 

Erik Kool Postdoctoral fellow
PhD

Research interests:

supernovae

Pouya M. Kouch M.Sc., doctoral candidate

Research interests:
AGN, multiwavelength observations, resonances in galaxies, time series analysis

Venkatessh Ramakrishnan

Radio astronomy, EHT observations, near-horizon AGN science, theoretical simulations and modelling of images and spectra.

Quentin Salomé Postdoctoral Researcher

Research interests:
AGN and outflows, AGN host galaxies, star formation in nearby galaxies, radio astronomy

Maria Babakhanyan Stone PhD Candidate

Research Interests:
galaxy formation and evolution, AGN, quasars, observational astronomy, programming, space exploration, citizen science, interdisciplinarity, teaching

Mikael Turkki MSc, Project researcher

Reseach interests :

Active galactic nuclei, polarization, millimeter waveband, observational astronomy

Mauri Valtonen PhD, emeritus professor

Research interests:

quasars, three-body problem, cosmology