Research team

We are part of the Department of Computing at the Faculty of Technology, University of Turku.

Welcome to contact us to discuss research/study positions and collaboration. Currently open positions are listed here. We will do our best but cannot guarantee to respond to all contacts.

Leo Lahti (Group leader)

Associate Professor (Data Science)
Statistical and machine learning techniques in human microbiome studies (ML4microbiome) COST action WG leader
International Science Council (ISC) Committee on Data (CODATA) national chair & delegate, member in the Data Ethics work group
National Board on Research Integrity (TENK) research integrity adviser
National open science coordination, vice chair
Open Knowledge Finland ry. board
Finnish Society for Computer Science board
Turku City Data Co. Board member and scientific advisor.
Blueprint Genetics. Scientific Advisor (AI & ML)
Certified Carpentries Instructor
Biography
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5537-637X

Postdocs

Matti Ruuskanen

Microbial ecology, bioinformatics, human microbiomes, environmental change.
Guilhem Sommeria-Klein

Microbial ecology and biogeography, statistical ecology, probabilistic modeling.
Pande Putu Erawijantari

Human microbiome, metagenomic, metabolomic, microbial ecology, bioinformatics
Aura Raulo

Microbiomes, ecology.
Katariina Pärnänen

Metagenomics, bioinformatics, AMR.

PhD researchers

Ville Laitinen

Probabilistic modeling, time series, early warning signals.
Moein Khalighi

Ecological Memory, Fractional Calculus, Differential Equations, Dynamic Modelling, Data Analysis.
Chandler Ross

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics, Statistical Modelling, Time Series.
Tuomas Borman

Bioinformatics, Human microbiome, R package development.

PhD researchers, co-supervised

The affiliation for the co-supervised PhD candidates indicated in parentheses.

Iiro Tiihonen (COMHIS)

Computational history, probabilistic modeling.
Ville Vaara (COMHIS)

Computational history, digital humanities.
Henrik Eckerman (Nijmegen)

Human microbiome and health, bioinformatics.
Mrunalini Lotankar (FOPP)

Bioinformatics, human microbiome, metagenomic, metabolomic.
Anna Sorjamaa (Oulu)

Microbiomes, bioinformatics.
Asiye Kazeroonian (Hanhineva lab)

Human Microbiome, Metagenomics, Metabolomics, Bioinformatics
Renuka Potbhare (Pune)

Human skin microbiome, metagenomics, bioinformatics.