Research team
Our team is 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. We will do our best to respond in a timely manner.
Postdocs
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Matti Ruuskanen
Microbial ecology, bioinformatics, human microbiomes, environmental change.
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Guilhem Sommeria-Klein
Microbial ecology and biogeography, statistical ecology, probabilistic modeling.
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Pande Putu Erawijantari
Human microbiome, metagenomic, metabolomic, microbial ecology, bioinformatics
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Aura Raulo
Microbiomes, ecology.
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Katariina Pärnänen
Metagenomics, bioinformatics, AMR.
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Rajesh Shigdel
Human oral microbiome, metagenomic, biostatistics, epidemiology
PhD researchers
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Ville Laitinen
Probabilistic modeling, time series, early warning signals.
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Moein Khalighi
Ecological Memory, Fractional Calculus, Differential Equations, Dynamic Modelling, Data Analysis.
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Chandler Ross
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics, Statistical Modelling, Time Series.
PhD researchers, co-supervised
The affiliation for the co-supervised PhD candidates indicated in parentheses.
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Iiro Tiihonen (COMHIS)
Computational history, probabilistic modeling.
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Ville Vaara (COMHIS)
Computational history, digital humanities.
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Joonatan Palmu (THC)
Data science, bioinformatics.
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Felix Vaura (THC)
Data science, bioinformatics.
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Henrik Eckerman (Nijmegen)
Human microbiome and health, bioinformatics.
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Mrunalini Lotankar (FOPP)
Bioinformatics, human microbiome, metagenomic, metabolomic.
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Anna Sorjamaa (Oulu)
Microbiomes, bioinformatics.
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Asiye Kazeroonian (Hanhineva lab)
Human Microbiome, Metagenomics, Metabolomics, Bioinformatics
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Renuka Potbhare (Pune)
Human skin microbiome, metagenomics, bioinformatics.
Research assistants
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Pyry Kantanen
R programming, Open data, Social research.
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Tuomas Borman
Bioinformatics, Human microbiome, R package development.
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Chouaib Benchraka
Machine Learning, data science.
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Giulio Benedetti
Data Science.
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Dorde Klisura
Data Science.
Alumni
Co-supervised PhDs:
- Anna Aatsinki (University of Turku, 2021; with Finnbrain)
- Sudarshan Shetty (Wageningen University, 2019; with Willem M de Vos)
Research assistants:
- Yagmur Simsek (2021-2022)
- Julia Matveeva (2021)
- Tom Gobardhan (2021; summer intern)
- Tim Garrels (2020; BARI internship)
- Binu Mathew (2019-2020)
- Hege Roivainen (2016-2020; at Helsinki Computational History Group)
- Aaro Salosensaari (2019-2020)
- Prashant Gaikwad (2019; SPARC / supported by Government of India)
MSc students:
- Emma Gheysen (KU Leuven, BE 2021; with Prof. Karoline Faust)
- Anastasia Karavaeva (2020)
- Wisam Saleem (2019-2020)
- Leila Paquay (KU Leuven, Belgium, 2018)
- Marnix Denys (KU Leuven, BE 2017; with Prof. Jeroen Raes)
- Tineka Blake (Wageningen University; NL 2015; with Prof. Willem de Vos)
- Emilio Ugaldes Morales (Wageningen University; NL 2014; with Prof. Willem de Vos)