Here, you can find our contact details and links to our researcher profiles at the research database Tuhat , which includes up-to-date information on our latest publications.
People
Katri Räikkonen
Academy Professor
Katri is the head of the Developmental Psychology Research Group. She is interested in a variety of early-life exposures, such as maternal stress and pregnancy complications, and the role these factors may play for the developing individual.
katri.raikkonen at helsinki.fi / Tuhat
Kati Heinonen
Senior Researcher
Kati is a senior university lecturer and a specialized child psychologist, with a PhD in psychology. Kati’s research interest is preterm birth and its long-term consequences.
kati.heinonen at helsinki.fi / Tuhat
Jari Lahti
Senior Researcher
Jari is a senior lecturer and a Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study core fellow with a PhD in psychology. His research interests include include genomic and epigenomic influences on mental health, personality, and cognitive abilities, and their developmental origins. Jari also has a background as a psychotherapist.
jari.lahti at helsinki.fi / Tuhat
Marius Lahti-Pulkkinen
Senior Researcher
Marius is an Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher with a PhD in psychology. Marius’ interests include the developmental origins of mental health, including fetal programming.
marius.lahti-pulkkinen at helsinki.fi / Tuhat
Riikka Pyhälä
Senior Researcher
Riikka is university lecturer with a PhD in psychology, as well as a clinical child psychologist. Riikka’s research interests include psychological long-term development after preterm birth.
riikka.pyhala at helsinki.fi / Tuhat
Soile Tuovinen
Post Doctoral Researcher
Soile is a postdoctoral researcher with a PhD in Psychology and a clinical child psychologist. She is particularly interested in developmental origins of mental health and cognitive abilities.
Polina Girchenko
Post Doctoral Researcher
Polina is an epidemiologist. Her research interest is prenatal programming of mental health and disease.
polina.girchenko at helsinki.fi / Tuhat
Ville Rantalainen
Post Doctoral Researcher
Ville is a psychologist currently working on the biopsychosocial risk factors of perinatal depression. He has also worked with cognitive aging and dementia risk.
ville.rantalainen at helsinki.fi / Tuhat
Tuomas Kvist
Doctoral Researcher
Tuomas has a Master's degree in Mathematics. Tuomas is working on genetic vulnerabity and risk factors in the prenatal environment in association to mental health in childhood.
tuomas.kvist at helsinki.fi / Tuhat
Rachel Robinson
Doctoral Researcher
Rachel has a Master's degree in Public Health. She previously worked in the Cochrane Work Review Group. Her work focuses on the adult outcomes of preterm birth and is apart of the RECAP and PremLife projects.
rachel.robinson at helsinki.fi / Tuhat
Anna Suarez Figueiredo
Doctoral Researcher
Anna is a psychologist and interested in stress, especially very early in life, and gene-environment interactions.
anna.suarez at helsinki.fi / Tuhat
Anna Lähdepuro
Doctoral Student
Anna is a psychologist and is interested in the developmental origins of mental health. Her research focus is the association of prenatal factors with later mental health.