People & Expertise
Here, you find information about our research interests and expertise. Don’t hesitate to contact us! For more information (e.g. contact info, publications), click a name and get transferred to the profile in the UTU research portal.
However, we are many more! If you would like to be featured on this page, just send the information you wish to be included (your name, contact details, links, keywords, and/or photo) to Anne Abio (anne.p.abio@utu.fi).
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
FACULTY OF LAW
Aleida Lujan Pinelo aleida.a.lujanpinelo@utu.fi feminist philosophy, gender studies, gender-based violence, human rights: new materialism
FACULTY OF MEDICINE
Anne Abio anne.p.abio@utu.fi child and adolescent mental health, injury epidemiology, public health, demography, statistics
Michael Lowery Wilson michael.l.wilson@utu.fi injury, violence, adolescents, suicide, Global South, epidemiology
Herman Lule Herman.h.lule@utu.fi global health, global surgery, tele-health, trauma care, injury epidemiology, data registries, RCT design, surgical oncology
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
Pablo Pérez Chaves pablo.perez@finnoc.fi remote sensing of environment, biodiversity assessment, environmental impact assessments, landscape ecology, Amazon research team
Salla Eilola skeilo@utu.fi participatory spatial planning, participatory GIS (PGIS), socio-ecological systems, social network analysis, landscape research, natural resource management, Tanzania
Niina Käyhkö nivuore@utu.fi geospatial research, environmental remote sensing, landscape geography, land change analysis, GIS, PGIS, participatory mapping, geospatial competence development, development research
Tikli Loivaranta tkmloi@utu.fi development studies, posthumanism, community forest rights, biocultural rights, nomosphere
Johanna Toivonen de Gonzales Tree carbon assimilation in African agroforestry systems; Topical treeline ecology; Grant writing
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Sabine Burghart sabine.burghart@utu.fi South Korea’s development aid, “Korea aid”, aid discourses, national ownership, emerging donors
Charles Ng’iendo charles.e.ngiendo@utu.fi genetic molecular epidemiology, biomedical data science, statistics, data analysis
FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY
Moammar Dayoub moammar.dayoub@utu.fi agriculture economics, adoption of new technology, impact assessment, evaluation, and feasibility in agriculture
TURKU SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Sidath Alwis sidath.h.alwis@utu.fi knowledge collaboration processes, project management, impact assessment, SME and startup development, community outreach, development planning
Marianna Birmoser Ferreira-Aulu marianna.b.ferreira-aulu@utu.fi futures studies, foresight, futures Literacy, sustainable development, sustainable food systems, sustainable energy systems, dams, Amazonia, Brazil, Peru, Colombia
Lucía Gómez Charry lucia.o.gomez@utu.fi foreign direct investments in the Global South, urban economic development, technological advancement
Joni Karjalainen joni.karjalainen@utu.fi futures studies, foresight, energy transition, innovation, off-grid solar energy, Lesotho, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Chile
Erja Kettunen-Matilainen erja.kettunen-matilainen@utu.fi Asian business environments, international trade, Free trade agreements, Southeast Asia, China, ASEAN, responsible business, sustainable development
Minna-Liina Ojala milioj@utu.fi international and multicultural cooperation, knowledge creation processes, mobility, rhythmanalysis, supply chains