PEOPLE

Age Poom

Associate Professor in Urban Environment, PhD
Head of the Research Group

Research interests: human-environmental interactions, human mobility and activity space, environmental exposure, urban greenery, street quality, urban transitions, sustainability science, environmental management

age.poom (at) ut.ee

Siiri Silm

Associate Professor in Human Geography, PhD

Research interests: mobile positioning, human mobility, ethnic segregation and inequality, social networks, transnationalism, tourism, urban studies, spatial planning, smart cities.

siiri.silm (at) ut.ee

Anto Aasa

Associate Professor in Human Geography, PhD

Research interests: analysis, GIS, maps, spatial statistics, mobile positioning, climate impacts, phenology

anto.aasa (at) ut.ee

Janika Raun

Research Fellow in Tourism Geography, PhD

Research interests: tourism geography, tracking technologies, temporary mobility, second home research

janika.raun (at) ut.ee

Veronika Mooses

Research Fellow of Human Geography, PhD

Research interests: ethnic differences in people’s spatio-temporal behaviour

veronika.mooses (at) ut.ee

Karl Saidla

Research Fellow in Sustainable Transportation, PhD

Research interests: sustainable transportation

karl.erik.thurber.saidla (at) ut.ee

Ago Tominga

PhD Candidate

Research interests: crisis management, population statistics, mobile positioning data, data visualization

ago.tominga (at) ut.ee

Daiga Paršova

PhD Candidate

Research interests: daily mobility, environmental exposure

daiga.parsova (at) ut.ee

Laura Altin

PhD Candidate

Research interests: tourism geography, destination marketing

laura.altin (at) ut.ee

Martin Haamer

PhD Candidate

Research interests: urban mobility analysis, sustainable transport planning and modelling

martin.haamer (at) ut.ee

Michele Donnini

PhD Candidate

Research interests: urban mobility, human geography

michele.donnini (at) ut.ee

Elise Jalonen

PhD Candidate

Research interests: urban mobility, mobility behavior, mobility justice

elise.jalonen (at) ut.ee

Arvi Kiik

System Administrator, MSc

arvi.kiik (at) ut.ee

Jürgen Öövel

Master’s Student

jurgen.oovel (at) ut.ee

Liisa Pihus

Mobility Research Assistant, MA

liisa.pihus (at) ut.ee

Visiting Professors

Frank Witlox

Visiting Professor, PhD
Full Professor of Economic Geography, Ghent University

Research interests: travel behaviour analysis, behavioural change, urban mobility, active travel, land use, locational decision-making

frank.witlox (at) UGent.be

Matthew Zook

Visiting Professor, PhD
University Research Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky

Research interests: digital geographies, critical financial studies and urban geography

zook (at) uky.edu

Jukka M. Krisp

Visiting Professor, PhD
Professor of Applied Geoinformatics, Augsburg University

Research interests: Location Based Services (LBS), geographic visualization / visual analytics, spatial modelling, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications, GIS in ecological network planning

jukka.krisp (at) uni-a.de

Previous members

Rein Ahas

(10.12.1966 – 18.02.2018)

Professor of Human Geography, PhD

Founder of the research group

Anniki Puura

Postdoctoral Researcher, Data Lab, Tallinn University of Technology

Olle Järv

Academy Research Fellow, Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki

Mari Nuga

Researcher, Department of Geography, University of Tartu

Jakub Novak

Andres Kuusik

Professor of Marketing, University of Tartu

Hando Hain

Margus Tiru

Erki Saluveer

Pilleriine Kamenjuk

Junior Quality Assurance Engineer, Raintree Estonia OÜ

Kerli Müürisepp

Postdoctoral Researcher, Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki

Kristi Post (Sõmer)

Specialist, Department of Geography, University of Tartu

Mirjam Veiler

Specialist, Department of Geography, University of Tartu

Kristiina Paiste

Ingrid Berg (Grigorjeva)

Mari-Liis Perend (Lamp)

Previous visitors

Elias Willberg

Postdoctoral Researcher, Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki

Jan Šimbera

Irma Kveladze

Wenning Zhao

Tsinghua University

Yifan Zhang

Shanghai University