Teams

Metazoa Team

The Metazoa Team is in charge of the zoological collections of both vertebrates and invertebrates, excluding insects. Research topics of principal investigators include systematics and zoogeography of birds, spiders, crustaceans, bivalve molluscs and fishes, the distribution and biology of bats, conservation biology, and theoretical and methodological aspects of biodiversity science. The taxidermy workshop prepares vertebrate specimens for the scientific collections and the public exhibition.

Team leader
Laakkonen, Hanna — Collection Manager

Ahopelto, Heikki — Taxidermy student
Aleixo, Alexandre — Curator (Tuhat)
Andersson, Roni — Taxidermist (Tuhat)
Branco, Vasco — Doctoral Student
Cardoso, Pedro — Curator (Tuhat)
Chichorro de Carvalho, Filipe — Doctoral Student
Fukushima, Caroline — Postdoctoral Researcher (Tuhat)
Granroth, Janne — Senior Museum Technician (Tuhat)
Hyytiäinen, Emma-Sofia — Senior Museum Technician (on leave)
Kochanova, Elena — Doctoral Student
Laine, Veronika — Postdoctoral Researcher
Laurén, Elina — Taxidermy student
Lilley, Thomas — Academy Research Fellow (Tuhat)
Lundberg, Piia — Postdoctoral Researcher
Mammola, Stefano — Postdoctoral Researcher
Meierhofer, Melissa — Postdoctoral Researcher
Meramo, Katarina — Doctoral Student
Nylund, Katja — Senior Museum Technician
Ovaskainen, Outi — Senior Museum Technician
Pajunen, Timo — Senior Museum Technician (Tuhat)
Puolakoski, Ari — Chief Taxidermist (Tuhat)
Suominen, Kati — Doctoral Student
Väinölä, Risto — Senior Curator (Tuhat)

Entomology Team

Team leader
Heikkilä, Maria — Curator 

Biström, Olof — Professor, emeritus (Tuhat)
Gillett, Conrad P.D.T. — intendentti (Tuhat)
Kahanpää, Jere — Digitisation coordinator (Tuhat)
Kaila, Lauri — Senior curator (Tuhat)
Lee, Kyung Min — Postdoctoral Researcher (Tuhat)
Lopes, Fernando — Postdoctoral Researcher (Tuhat)
Losacco, Federica — Museum Technician
Malinen, Pekka — Senior museum technician (Tuhat)
Mattila, Jaakko — Collections coordinator (Tuhat)
Muona, Jyrki — Professor, emeritus (Tuhat)
Neuvonen, Tapani — Museum Technician
Paukkunen, Juho — Senior museum technician (Tuhat)
Rossini, Michele — Postdoctoral researcher (Tuhat)
Rättel, Elvira — Senior museum technician
Sasso Porto, Diego — Postdoctoral Researcher (Tuhat)
Silfverberg, Hans — Curator emeritus (Tuhat)
Ståhls-Mäkelä, Gunilla — Laboratory manager (Tuhat)
Tarasov, Sergei — Curator (Tuhat)
Viljanen, Heidi — Senior museum technician (Tuhat)
Vilkamaa, Pekka — Curator emeritus (Tuhat)

Specimen loans and other technical collection issues: Pekka Malinen (Lepidoptera), Jaakko Mattila (Coleoptera), Jere Kahanpää (Diptera), Juho Paukkunen (Hymenoptera), Heidi Viljanen (other insect orders).

Monitoring Team, Ringing Centre

Team leader
Valkama, Jari — Curator (Tuhat)
    
Björklund, Heidi — Senior Museum Technician (Tuhat)
Honkala, Juha — Senior Museum Technician (Tuhat)
Lehikoinen, Aleksi — Senior Curator (Tuhat)
Lehikoinen, Petteri — Coordination Curator
Santaharju, Jarkko — Senior Museum Technician
Tidenberg, Eeva-Maria
Tirri, Ina — Senior Museum Technician

Contact information

• Visiting address:
  • Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13, 00100 Helsinki
• Mailing address:
  • P.O. Box 17, FI-00014 University of Helsinki
• Unit director: Pasi Sihvonen
• Staff (University phone directory)
• E-mails: firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi