Tuorla Observatory Staff

Valtonen, Mauri (retired)

PhD (Cambridge)

Room: 7 Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8215
Email: mavalto@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• quasars
• three-body problem
• cosmology

Kotilainen, Jari

PhD (Cambridge), Director of the FINCA

Room: 209 Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8250
Email: jari.kotilainen@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• AGN host galaxies and environments
• Evolution of galaxies
• Star formation in galaxies

Lehto, Harry

PhD (Virginia), Director of Tuorla Observatory

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

Home page: http://users.utu.fi/hlehto/indexuk.html
Research interests:

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

Valtaoja, Esko

PhD

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

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Research interests:

• AGN
• cosmology
• solar physics

Allawi, Habeeb

PhD, Post-doc from Thi Qar University Iraq

Room: 24b Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)45 8833880
Email: habeeb.allawi@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• solar physics
• radio emission
• solar energetic particles acceleration

Berdyugin, Andrei

PhD

Room: 114
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8985
Email: andber@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• astrophysical polarimetry
• cool stars
• dust

Heinämäki, Pekka

PhD

Room: 116
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8983
Email: pekheina@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Cosmological simulations
• galaxy clustering
• large scale structure

Karttunen, Hannu

PhD, Adjunct Professor

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

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Research interests:

• light scattering

Katajainen, Seppo

PhD

Room: 24 Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8243
Email: sekataja@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Interacting binary stars
• compact objects
• polarisation studies
• high speed photometry
• magnetic phenomena in stars

Korhonen, Tapio

PhLic

Room: Caverno
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8298
Email: takukor@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• optical manufacturing and testing

Lindfors, Elina

PhD

Room: 122
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8945
Email: elilin@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Very high energy gamma-ray astronomy
• Blazars

Mattila, Seppo

PhD (London), Adjunct Professor

Room: 119
Tel: 358 (0)2 333 8299
Email: seppo.mattila@utu.fi

Home page: http://users.utu.fi/sepmat/
Research interests:

• Supernovae
• infrared galaxies
• medical applications of image processing

Mikkola, Seppo

PhD, Adjunct Professor

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

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Research interests:

• Celestial mechanics

Nurmi, Pasi

PhD

Room: 115
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8984
Email: pasnurmi@utu.fi

Home page: http://users.utu.fi/pasnurmi/
Research interests:

• Solar system dynamics
• Image data processing
• Cosmological simulations

Pohjolainen, Silja

PhD, Adjunct Professor

Room: 112
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

Portinari, Laura

PhD, Adjunct Professor

Room: 111
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8988
Email: lporti@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Structure and evolution of galaxies

Rekola, Rami T. F.

PhD

Room: 118
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8981
Email: rareko@utu.fi

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

• The (Extended) Local Group of galaxies
• Distances to galaxies
• Near field cosmology

Riehokainen, Alexander

PhD

Room: 8 Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8948
Email: alerie@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Solar physics

Romero-Canizales, Cristina

PhD

Room: 120
Tel: +358 (0)2 3338944
Email: crroca@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Supernovae
• Luminous infrared galaxies
• Massive star formation
• Astronomical masers

Sillanpää, Aimo

PhD, Adjunct Professor

Room: 21 Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)2 3338289
Email: aimosill@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Multifrequency studies of AGNs

Takalo, Leo

PhD, Adjunct Professor

Room: 6 Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8229
Email: takalo@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Multifrequency studies of AGNs

Teerikorpi, Pekka

PhD, Adjunct Professor

Room: 22 Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8263
Email: pekkatee@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• cosmological distance scale
• Hubble constant
• dark matter and dark energy
• large-scale structure
• others: interstellar dust at high galactic latitudes and quasars

Wiik, Kaj

DSc (Tech.)

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

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Research interests:

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

Zheng, Jia-Qing (retired)

PhD, Adjunct Professor

Room: 7 Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8262
Email: zheng@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Celestial mechanics

Bird, Sarah

BSc

Room: 111 Carelia
Tel: 358 (0)2 333 8232
Email: sarah dot bird at utu dot fi

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Research interests:

• Galactic kinematics

Datson, Juliet

MSc

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

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Research interests:

• Galactic star formation

Hentunen, Veli-Pekka

MSc

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Email: velhen@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Supernovae

Kankare, Erkki

MSc

Room: 120
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8205
Email: eskank@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Supernovae

Karhunen, Kalle

MSc

Room: 121
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8947
Email: kajukar@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• AGN

Kotiranta, Samuli

MSc

Room: 122
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 6359
Email: jankot@utu.fi

Home page: http://users.utu.fi/jankot/
Research interests:

• Exoplanetary systems

Lietzen, Heidi

MSc

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

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Research interests:

• Gravitational lensing
• QSO/AGN host galaxies

Pasechnik, Alexey

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Email: alexey.pasechnik@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Galactic dynamics

Pasanen, Mikko

MSc

Room: Caverno
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8311
Email: mianpa@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Active galaxies

Reinthal, Riho

MSc

Room: 112 Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8321
Email: rirein@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• AGN

Somero, Auni

MSc

Room: 111 Carelia
Tel: +358 (02) 333 8294
Email: auni.somero@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• Interacting compact binaries

Pihajoki, Pauli

MSc

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Email: popiha@utu.fi

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Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh

MSc

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Vornanen, Tommi

MSc

Room: 111 Carelia
Tel: +358 (02) 333 8294
Email: ttvorn@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• magnetic white dwarfs

Keinänen, Perttu

MSc

Room: Caverno
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8311
Email: perttu.keinanen@utu.fi

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Reinikainen, Sirpa

Room: 210 Carelia
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8221
Email: sirein@utu.fi

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Flynn, Chris (on leave of absence)

PhD (ANU), Adjunct Professor

Room: 7A Carelia
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 of galaxies

Hakala, Pasi

PhD, Adjunct Professor

Room: 113
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

Korhonen, Heidi (on leave of absence)

PhD

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Email: heidi.h.korhonen@utu.fi

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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

Nilsson, Kari

PhD, Adjunct Professor

Room: 117
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

Piirola, Vilppu

PhD, Adjunct Professor

Room: 9 Carelia
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

Salinas, Ricardo

PhD

Room: 24b
Tel: +358 (0)2 333 8312
Email: rcsave@utu.fi

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Research interests:

• galaxy dynamics
• dark matter in elliptical galaxies
• globular cluster systems
• stellar populations

Reunanen, Juha

PhD

Room: 121
Tel: (0)2 333 8946
Email: reunanen@ftml.net

Home page: http://www.reunanen.ftml.net/public/
Research interests:

• AGN
• Star formation
• Evolution of galaxies