People

Professor of Evolutionary Palaeontology
Head, Division of Biogeoscience
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki

• Evolution of mammal communities and circumstances of early human environments

• Evolution of Eurasian land mammals and terrestrial environments

• Ecometrics of fossil and living mammals

• Development, function and evolution of mammalian teeth

• Scaling problems in functional systems

Room B140, Office hour: Tue 13-14

Phone: +358 50 5337267

mikael.fortelius@helsinki.fi

Post-doctoral researcher, PhD

• paleoecology and ecometrics of mammals and their paleoenvironments
• body size evolution of mammals 
• paleodietary analyses of proboscideans, xenarthrans, ungulates and other herbivorous mammals
• extending mesowear methodology for new tooth morphology types
• mammal osteology, ecomorphology and evolution

Room C114, Physicum

juha.saarinen@helsinki.fi

Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD

• Phylogenetic paleobiogeography

• Phylogenetic comparative methods

• Constructing large scale phylogenies/supertrees with fossil taxa

• Replacement patterns

• Cenozoic mammals

• Human/carnivore interactions during the Pleistocene

Room C114

laura.saila@helsinki.fi 

Researcher, Docent, PhD

Jussi is at the moment mainly working at BIOS, a new independent research unit, where he is active in investigating how humankind and society are capable of solving the looming environmental and climate crisis. He is also affiliated as a researcher with the Evolutionary palaeontology group.

• Anthropocene

• Ecosystem dynamics through time

• Ecometrics of fossil and living mammals

• Combining environmental modelling (incl. climate) with fossil data

• Conservation Paleobiology

• Multidisciplinary anticipation of socio-ecological transformations

• Public outreach for environmental issues

jussi.t.eronen@helsinki.fi

Data curator, Doctoral student, MSc (Biosciences)

• mammalian community structures and their relation to environment and climate

• taxon-free approaches in mammalian communities

kari.lintulaakso@gmail.com

PhD student, Kurtén Club host, MSc

• Plio-Pleistocene African suids, their evolution and extinction

• Environmental changes in Turkana Basin during the last 8 Ma

• Dental traits and their correlation with diet and environment

Room C120

janina.rannikko@helsinki.fi

Doctoral student

aleksis.karme@helsinki.fi

Doctoral student

Doctoral student

Honorary member (Assistant Professor at Dept. of Computer Science)

• data science, machine learning, data mining

• adaptation, concept drift, evolving data

• paleobiology, evolutionary biology, macroevolution

• transparency and accountability in machine learning

Room D232 in Exactum, Office hour: Tue 15-16

name.surname@helsinki.fi