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

Elizabeth Eta

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

Minna Opas

FACULTY OF LAW

Aleida Lujan Pinelo feminist philosophy, gender studies, gender-based violence, human rights: new materialism

FACULTY OF MEDICINE

Anne Abio child and adolescent mental health, injury epidemiology, public health, demography, statistics
Michael Lowery Wilson injury, violence, adolescents, suicide, Global South, epidemiology
Herman Lule global health, global surgery, tele-health, trauma care, injury epidemiology, data registries, RCT design, surgical oncology

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Pablo Pérez Chaves remote sensing of environment, biodiversity assessment, environmental impact assessments, landscape ecology, Amazon research team
Salla Eilola participatory spatial planning, participatory GIS (PGIS),  socio-ecological systems, social network analysis, landscape research, natural resource management, Tanzania
Niina Käyhkö geospatial research, environmental remote sensing, landscape geography, land change analysis, GIS, PGIS, participatory mapping, geospatial competence development, development research
Tikli Loivaranta development studies, posthumanism, community forest rights, biocultural rights, nomosphere
Msilikale Msilanga GIS, participatory mapping, spatial planning
Johanna Toivonen de Gonzales Tree carbon assimilation in African agroforestry systems; Topical treeline ecology; Grant writing

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Sabine Burghart South Korea’s development aid, “Korea aid”, aid discourses, national ownership, emerging donors
Charles Ng’iendo genetic molecular epidemiology, biomedical data science, statistics, data analysis

FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY

Moammar Dayoub agriculture economics, adoption of new technology, impact assessment, evaluation, and feasibility in agriculture

TURKU SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

Sidath Alwis knowledge collaboration processes, project management, impact assessment, SME and startup development, community outreach, development planning
Marianna Birmoser Ferreira-Aulu futures studies, foresight, futures Literacy, sustainable development, sustainable food systems, sustainable energy systems, dams, Amazonia, Brazil, Peru, Colombia
Lucía Gómez Charry foreign direct investments in the Global South, urban economic development, technological advancement​​​ 
Joni Karjalainen futures studies, foresight, energy transition, innovation, off-grid solar energy, Lesotho, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Chile
Erja Kettunen-Matilainen Asian business environments, international trade, Free trade agreements, Southeast Asia, China, ASEAN, responsible business, sustainable development
Minna-Liina Ojala international and multicultural cooperation, knowledge creation processes, mobility, rhythmanalysis, supply chains
Betül Yilmaz sustainable supply chain management, social sustainability

UTU PARTNERSHIPS & STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT

Satu Nurmi International Liaison officer