You can also find the contact details of our staff in our staff directory.

Leadership of the Unit

• Katja Bergbacka, Director
• Sinikka Karjalainen, Deputy director

Lan­guage Centre Stu­dent Ser­vices

• Student Services and Teachers' Office Hours
• e-mail: kielikeskus-neuvonta(at)helsinki.fi

Sup­port for teach­ing and learn­ing

• Sinikka Karjalainen, Head of Development
• Janne Niinivaara, Specialist (development of teaching)
• Nina Sulonen, Specialist (internationalization and guidance)

Lan­guage Ser­vices

• Language Services in a nutshell
• Questions about personnel courses and doctoral school courses: kielikeskus-kielipalvelut(at)helsinki.fi
• Leena Evesti, Head of Language Services

Heads of Lan­guage Units

Chinese

• Tia Patenge, University teacher

English

• Tuula Lehtonen, Senior lecturer
• Roy Siddall, Senior lecturer

French:

• Mirjami Matilainen, Senior lecturer

German:

• Tia Patenge, University teacher

Italian

• Mirjami Matilainen, Senior lecturer

Japanese

• Tia Patenge, University teacher

Mother tongue (academic writing and speech communication) and Finnish as a 2nd language

• Maiju Ranta, University teacher
• Hanna Vänskä, University teacher

Russian:

• Tia Patenge, University teacher

Spanish

• Mirjami Matilainen, Senior lecturer

Swedish:

• Carola Rewell-Heikkinen, University teacher
• Johanna Manner-Kivipuro, University teacher

Other languages (Arabic, Danish, Estonian, Korean, Portuguese)

• Sinikka Karjalainen, Head of Development