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DIRECTOR
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Kotilainen, Jari
Professor, PhD (Cambridge)
Room: 7B (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8250
Email:
jari.kotilainen@utu.fi
Research interests:
- high redshift galaxies
- infrared imaging
- QSO/AGN hosts
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RESEARCHERS
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Berdyugin, Andrei
PhD
Room: 114 (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8985
Email:
andber@utu.fi
Research interests:
- astrophysical polarimetry
- cool stars
- dust
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Hackman, Thomas
PhD
Room: D325 (Division of Geophysics and Astronomy, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki)
Tel: +358 (0)9 1915 0738
Email:
thomas.hackman@helsinki.fi
Research interests:
- late type stars: magnetic activity and spots
- Doppler imaging
- optical spectroscopy and photometry
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Haikala, Lauri
Dr.rer.Nat. (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg), Adjunct Professor
Room: D310 (Department of Physics, University of Helsinki)
Tel: +358 (0)9 1912 3718
Email:
lauri.haikala@helsinki.fi
Research interests:
- interstellar matter
- interstellar molecular clouds
- low mass star formation
- optical, NIR, MIR, FIR and (sub)mm astronomy
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Hakala, Pasi
PhD, Adjunct Professor
Room: 113 (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8299
Email:
pahakala@utu.fi
Research interests:
- artificial intelligence applications to astronomy
- compact binaries
- optical variability surveys
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Harju, Jorma
PhD, Adjunct Professor
Room: D312 (Division of Geophysics and
Astronomy, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki)
Tel: +358 (0)9 1915 1004
Email:
jorma.harju@helsinki.fi
Research interests:
- interstellar molecular clouds
- star formation
- sub-millimetre/millimetre astronomy
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Kankare, Erkki
PhD
Room: 120 (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8494
Email:
eskank@utu.fi
Research interests:
- supernovae
- luminous infrared galaxies
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Korhonen, Heidi (on leave of absence)
PhD
Email:
heidi.h.korhonen@utu.fi
Research interests:
- stellar surface structures across the HR diagram
- stellar magnetic activity from photosphere to corona
- activity cycles
- effect of stellar magnetic activity on exoplanets and their detection
- optical/infrared spectroscopy, photometry and interferometry
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Laurikainen, Eija
PhD, Adjunct Professor
Room: TÄ 319 (Department of Physics/Astronomy, University of Oulu)
Tel: +358 (0)8 553 1936
Email:
eija.laurikainen@oulu.fi
Research interests:
- secular evolution of galaxies
- galaxy dynamics
- AGNs
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León Tavares, Jonathan
PhD
Room: 121 (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8946
Email:
jonathan.leontavares@utu.fi
Research interests:
- multiwavelength properties of AGN
- AGN host galaxies
- star formation-AGN connection
- VLBI
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Lindfors, Elina
PhD, Adjunct Professor
Room: 122 (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8945
Email:
elilin@utu.fi
Research interests:
- very high energy gamma-ray astronomy
- blazars
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Mattila, Seppo
PhD (London), Adjunct Professor
Room: 119 (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8299
Email:
sepmat@utu.fi
Home page: http://users.utu.fi/sepmat/
Research interests:
- core-collapse supernovae
- luminous infrared galaxies
- medical applications of image processing
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Nieppola, Elina
D.Sc.(Tech.)
Room: 114 (Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)9 4283 2039
Email:
elina.nieppola@tkk.fi
Research interests:
- blazar spectra
- blazar monitoring
- radio astronomy
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Nilsson, Kari
PhD, Adjunct Professor
Room: 117 (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8982
Email:
kani@utu.fi
Home page: http://users.utu.fi/kani/
Research interests:
- AGN/QSO host galaxies
- AGN monitoring
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Pelkonen, Veli-Matti
PhD
Room: D324 (Division of Geophysics and Astronomy, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki)
Email:
veli-matti.pelkonen@helsinki.fi
Research interests:
- interstellar dust
- polarisation
- interstellar clouds
- star formation
- structure of the Milky Way
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Piirola, Vilppu
PhD, Adjunct Professor
Room: 20 (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8223
Email:
piirola@utu.fi
Research interests:
- interacting binary stars
- magnetic white dwarfs
- star-forming regions
- interstellar and circumstellar matter
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Salinas, Ricardo
PhD
Room: 24b (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8312
Email:
rcsave@utu.fi
Research interests:
- galaxy dynamics
- dark matter in elliptical galaxies
- globular cluster systems
- stellar populations
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Tsygankov, Sergey
PhD
Room: FY276 (Department of
Physics/Astronomy, University of Oulu)
Tel: +358 (0)8 553 1948
Email: stsygankov@gmail.com
Research interests:
- high energy astrophysics
- compact objects
- X-ray pulsars
- gamma-ray lines
- nuclear astrophysics
- galactic diffuse emission
- clusters of galaxies
- AGNs
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Valtonen, Mauri
PhD (Cambridge), Professor, Adjunct Senior
Scientist
Room: 209 (Tuorla Observatory)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8215
Email:
mavalto@utu.fi
Research interests:
- quasars
- three-body problem
- cosmology
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