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
Elise Jalonen
Specialist in Mobility Studies, MSc
elise.jalonen (at) ut.ee
Arvi Kiik
System Administrator, MSc
arvi.kiik (at) ut.ee
Jürgen Öövel
Specialist
jurgen.oovel (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
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
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
Link to Estonian Research Portal
Ingrid Berg (Grigorjeva)
Mari-Liis Perend (Lamp)
Link to Estonian Research Portal
Previous visitors
Elias Willberg
Postdoctoral Researcher, Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki
Jan Šimbera
Head of Energy Flexibility Analytics, Nano Energies
Irma Kveladze
Assistant Professor of Geoinformatics, Aalborg University
Wenning Zhao
Tsinghua University
Yifan Zhang
Shanghai University