Teaching staff

Eronen, Timo

PhD

Room: 351 (Quantum)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 5748
Email: timo.eronen@utu.fi

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Flynn, Chris

PhD (ANU)

Room: 7A (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8206
Email: cflynn@utu.fi

Home page: http://www.astro.utu.fi/~cflynn/
Research interests:

• Galactic structure
• dark matter
• chemical evolution

Hakala, Pasi

PhD, Adjunct Prof

Room: 113 (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8299
Email: pahakala@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Artificial intelligence applications to astronomy
• compact binaries
• optical variability surveys

Karttunen, Hannu

PhD, Adjunct Prof

Room: 110 (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8989
Email: hannu.karttunen@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• light scattering

Kotilainen, Jari

PhD (Cambridge), Adjunct Prof

Room: (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8250
Email: jari.kotilainen@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• High redshift galaxies
• infrared imaging
• QSO/AGN hosts

Laitinen, Timo

Assistant Professor

PhD

Room: 356 (Quantum)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 5671
Email: timolai@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Solar energetic particles
• Plasma turbulence
• Heliospheric plasma environment

Lehto, Harry

Assistant Professor

PhD (Virginia)

Room: (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8290
Email: hlehto@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Astrobiology
• Interacting Binaries
• High Energy Astrophysics
• Black Holes
• Timeseries analysis

Mikkola, Seppo

PhD, Adjunct Prof

Room: 23 (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8326
Email: mikkola@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Celestial mechanics

Mylläri, Aleksandr

PhD

Room: 111 (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8232
Email: alemio@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Galactic dynamics
• three body problem
• celestial mechanics

Nilsson, Kari

PhD, Adjunct Prof

Room: (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8982
Email: kani@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• AGN/QSO host galaxies
• AGN monitoring

Piirola, Vilppu

PhD, Adjunct Prof

Room: 20 (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8223
Email: piirola@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Interacting binary stars
• magnetic white dwarfs
• star-forming regions
• interstellar and circumstellar matter

Pohjolainen, Silja

Assistant

PhD, Adjunct Prof

Room: 112 (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8987
Email: silpoh@utu.fi

Home page: http://users .utu.fi/silpoh/index.html
Research interests:

• solar physics
• plasma physics
• radio astronomy

Riihonen, Esa

PhD

Room: 355 (Quantum)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 5746
Email: riihonen@utu.fi

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Sillanpää, Aimo

PhD, Adjunct Prof

Room: 8 (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8289
Email: aimosill@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Multifrequency studies of AGNs

Takalo, Leo

PhD, Adjunct Prof

Room: (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8229
Email: takalo@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Multifrequency studies of AGNs

Teerikorpi, Pekka

PhD, Adjunct Prof

Room: (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8263
Email: pekkatee@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Cosmology
• dark matter
• dark energy
• malmquist bias

Valtaoja, Esko

Professor

PhD

Room: 110 (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8235
Email: esko.valtaoja@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• AGN
• Sun

Valtonen, Eino

Professor

PhD

Room: 353 (Quantum)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 5644
Email: eino.valtonen@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Solar energetic particles

Valtonen, Mauri

Professor

PhD (Cambridge)

Room: 209 (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8215
Email: mavalto@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• quasars
• three-body problem
• cosmology

Wiik, Kaj

D.Sc. (Tech.)

Room: (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8949
Email: kaj.wiik@utu.f

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Research interests:

• mm and space VLBI
• AGN
• mesolensing
• Bayesian methods

Zheng, Jia-Qing

PhD

Room: 21 (Tuorla)
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8262
Email: zheng@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Celestial mechanics