I just returned from a valuable visit to the ISI Foundation in Torino, where I had the opportunity to connect with experts in urban mobility. A highlight was catching up with my PhD co-supervisor, Prof. Leo Ferres, as we exchanged insights on mobility dynamics, particularly in Latin America and Chile. During my visit, I shared […]
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We are happy to share that our paper was published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. In the paper, we investigate spatial accessibility and transport equity at national level in Finland with open source tools! The work was lead by the brilliant Matti Pönkänen and in great collaboration with Miloš N Mladenović and Henrikki! 👏 […]
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We are sad (but excited at the same time!) to say that our beloved team member Bryan Vallejo will return to his home country Ecuador in September and starts a cool job at Charles Darwin Foundation in Galapagos islands. Bryan has been a dear colleague of ours for many years (both at GIST Lab and […]
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We are happy to announce that we have a new team member joining the GIST Lab, Dr. Oleksandr Karasov. Welcome! Oleksandr is leading a new project called Ukrainability that explores the impact of war on human-environment interactions in Ukraine. Before joining GIST Lab, Oleksandr worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Geography Lab, University […]
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We were happy to host Prof. Adam Dennett from the Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London who is collaborating with GIST Lab related to the Mapico -project. Adam also gave a super interesting talk at the GeoSPA Seminar Series. Below are some pictures from this visit.
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MAPICO Team at Mobile Tartu Conference: Advancing Sustainable Mobility Research Over the past few days, the MAPICO team had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Mobile Tartu Conference, a premier event focused on mobile big data analytics for building just and sustainable societies. The conference brought together a vibrant community of mobility researchers—ranging from […]
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We are excited to share the success of the Geoinformatics Research Days 2024, held on May 20-21 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. This annual event, now in its 10th year, brought together scholars and experts from around the globe to present cutting-edge geospatial projects and research. This year marked a significant transformation, as we […]
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Henrikki, Jussi and Josias had a busy August hiring new people for the new MAPICO research project that starts officially in September 2023. Altogether there were 180 applicants for these positions. We are delighted to share that we decided to hire one postdoctoral researcher and two doctoral researchers for the project, who will start their […]
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Ngoc Chau finished and submitted her MSc thesis in July called “A geospatial data-driven approach to assess transport-related carbon emissions: Case Otaniemi, Finland“. Congrats Ngoc! Ngoc did her work as a research assistant at GIST Lab together with Henrikki who was her main supervisor and advisor. Also Prof. Milos Mladenović from the Spatial Planning and […]
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Eero Alkio finished and submitted his MSc thesis in July called “Spatially distributed crop modelling in the Mekong River Basin with AquaCrop“. Congrats Eero! This work emerged as a result from fruitful collaboration between Geoinformatics + Water and Environmental Engineering research groups. Eero’s thesis relates to the postdoctoral research of Josias Láng-Ritter who was also […]
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