
Siiri Silm
Associate Professor in Human Geography, PhD
Head of the Research Group
Research interests: mobile positioning, human mobility, ethnic segregation and inequality, social networks, transnationalism, tourism, urban studies, spatial planning, smart cities.
siiri.silm@ut.ee

Frank Witlox
Visiting Professor of Economic Geography from Ghent University, PhD
International Head of the Research Group
Research interests: travel behavior analysis, behavioral change, urban mobility, active travel, land use, locational decision-making
frank.witlox@ut.ee

Anto Aasa
Associate Professor in Human Geography, PhD
Research interests: analysis, GIS, maps, spatial statistics, mobile positioning, climate impacts, phenology
anto.aasa@ut.ee

Age Poom
Associate Professor in Urban Environment, PhD
Research interests: human-environmental interactions, mobility and activity space, environmental exposure, urban greenery, street quality, household consumption, sustainability science
age.poom@ut.ee

Janika Raun
Research Fellow in Tourism Geography, PhD
Research interests: tourism geography, tracking technologies, temporary mobility, second home research
janika.raun@ut.ee

Veronika Mooses
Research Fellow of Human Geography, PhD
Research interests: ethnic differences in people’s spatio-temporal behaviour
veronika.mooses@ut.ee

Anniki Puura
Specialist in Geography, PhD
Research interests: social networks and travel behaviour
anniki.puura@ut.ee

Karl Saidla
Research Fellow in Sustainable Transportation, PhD
Research interests: sustainable transportation
karl.erik.thurber.saidla@ut.ee

Ago Tominga
PhD Candidate
Research interests: urban geography, sustainable mobility, human-environmental interactions, environmental exposure, travel environments, activity spaces
ago.tominga@ut.ee

Daiga Paršova
PhD Candidate
Research interests: daily mobility, environmental exposure
daiga.parsova@ut.ee

Laura Altin
PhD Candidate
Research interests: tourism geography, destination marketing
laura.altin@ut.ee

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

Mirjam Veiler
Assistant of Human Geography, MSc
mirjam.veiler@ut.ee
Previous members

Rein Ahas
(10.12.1966 – 18.02.2018)
Professor of Human Geography, PhD
Founder of the research group
Olle Järv
Academy Research Fellow, Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki
Mari Nuga
Senior research assistant, Umeå University
Jakub Novak
Andres Kuusik
Professor of Marketing, University of Tartu
Hando Hain
Director of Strategy and Innovations, Preferred by Nature
Margus Tiru
Member of the Board, Positium
Erki Saluveer
Member of the Board, Positium
Pilleriine Kamenjuk
Junior Quality Assurance Engineer, Raintree Estonia OÜ
Kerli Müürisepp
Doctoral Researcher, Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki
Mari-Liis Perend (Lamp)
Link to Estonian Research Portal
Kristi Post (Sõmer)
Specialist, Department of Geography, University of Tartu
Kristiina Paiste
Link to Estonian Research Portal
Visitors
Matthew Zook
University Research Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky
Jukka Krisp
Professor of Applied Geoinformatics, Augsburg University
Irma Kveladze
Assistant Professor of Geoinformatics, Aalborg University
Jan Šimbera
Head of Energy Flexibility Analytics, Nano Energies
Wenning Zhao
Tsinghua University
Yifan Zhang
Shanghai University