
Rein Ahas – professor, PhD
1966-2018
Founder of the research group

Siiri Silm – associate professor, PhD
Head of the research group
Area of research: ethnic segregation, mobile positioning, urban studies, seasonal phenomena, spatial statistics, GIS
siiri.silm@ut.ee

Frank Witlox – professor, PhD
International head of the research group
Visiting professor from Ghent University (BEL)

Anto Aasa – associate professor, PhD
Area of research: analysis, GIS, maps, spatial statistics, mobile positioning, climate impacts, phenology
anto.aasa@ut.ee
www.aasa.ut.ee

Age Poom – lecturer, PhD
Area of research: environmental impacts, the final consumption environmental burden and the ecological footprint, environmental management
age.poom@ut.ee

Janika Raun – research fellow in tourism geography, PhD
Area of research: tourist destinations in the definition of visitors temporal and spatial behavior
janika.raun@ut.ee

Veronika Mooses – PhD student, research associate
Area of research: Ethnic differences in people’s spatio-temporal behaviour
veronika.mooses@ut.ee

Pilleriine Kamenjuk – PhD student, research associate
Area of research: Change in residence and its impact on daily activity spaces
pilleriine.kamenjuk@ut.ee

Daiga Paršova – PhD student
Area of research: daily mobility, environmental exposure
daiga.parsova@ut.ee
daiga@parsova.lv

Margus Tiru – PhD student
Area of research: web based monitoring environments, tourism geography analysis, tourist destination loyalty
margus.tiru@positium.com

Erki Saluveer – PhD student
Area of research: mobility studies, GIS, location-based services, mobile positioning, spatial databases
erki.saluveer@positium.com

Anniki Puura – PhD student, research associate
Area of research: social networks and travel behaviour
anniki.puura@ut.ee

Arvi Kiik – MSc
System Administrator
arvi.kiik@ut.ee

Mirjam Veiler – MSc
Assistant of Human Geography
mirjam.veiler@ut.ee

Laura Altin – PhD student
Area of research: tourism geography, destination marketing
laura662@gmail.com
On Maternity Leave