Funded research

Projects

I have served as PI or Co-PI in 12 projects, with support from national funders in Finland and international funders including the EU and the Nordic Council of Ministers. My ongoing and past projects are listed below.

Ongoing

5 projects
2025-2028

Geo-R2LLM: Knowledgeable and Interpretable multimodal Geographic Large Language Models Grounded with Reasoning and Retrieval

Role
PI at Aalto University
Funder
ERA-NET CHIST-ERA
Funding
637 000 €
2025-2026

Hands-on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) - Joint online course development

Role
Co-PI
Funder
TU Graz seed funding
2025-2029

Geoportti RI: New Frontiers

Role
PI at Aalto University and Deputy Director
Funder
Research Council of Finland
Funding
746 000 €
2023-2027

MAPICO: Mapping commute-related carbon emissions with high spatial resolution using big data and probabilistic approaches

Role
PI
Funder
Research Council of Finland
Funding
851 000 €
2024-2027

UKRAINABILITY: Revealing Changes in People-Nature Relationships and Landscape Sustainability in Ukraine Caused by Russia’s Invasion

Role
Supervising PI
Funder
Aalto University

Past

9 projects
2025

Data-Driven Mobility: Collaborative Tools for Sustainable Transport in Nordic Nations

Role
PI at Aalto University
Funder
Québec - Nordic Council of Ministers
2023-2025

Location Innovation Hub (EDIH)

Role
PI at Aalto University
Funder
European Commission
Funding
138 000 €
2023

Knowledge discovery and visual analysis for urban mobility data in Helsinki and Munich

Role
PI
Funder
Aalto University seed funding
2023

Knowledge discovery and visual analysis for urban mobility data in Helsinki and Munich

Role
Co-PI
Funder
TU Munich seed funding
2022-2023

Threat and risk analysis of open geospatial data of National Land Survey

Role
PI
Funder
National Land Survey of Finland
2023

Geo-Python MOOC video production

Role
PI
Funder
Maanmittausalan edistämissäätiö
2022-2024

Open Geospatial RI (Geoportti consortium)

Role
Co-PI
Funder
Research Council of Finland
Funding
141 000 €
2019-2020

Investigating modal equity in urban environments with big data

Role
PI
Funder
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Funding
100 000 €
2015-2017

Spatio-temporal accessibility and mobility analysis to support spatial planning

Role
PI
Funder
DENVI doctoral programme
Funding
100 000 €