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About me

Atte Oksanen is Professor of Social Psychology and Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Tampere University, Finland. Oksanen's research focuses on digital technologies, social interaction, crime and addiction. He is the director of Emerging Technologies Lab which conducts social scientific and social psychological research on human behavior in technological environments. Oksanen has successfully led several major research projects funded by the Academy of Finland, Kone Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Aaltonen Foundation, Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies, Finnish Work Environment Fund, Wihuri Foundation, and Helsingin Sanomat Foundation. His international research projects have been funded by the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology, the Research council of Norway and the National Science Foundation (U.S.). He has published extensively on social media, online communities and cyberhate during the last years and has over 350 publications to his name, with over 180 peer-reviewed international journal articles, including flagship journals (e.g. Criminology, Addiction, Pediatrics, International Journal of Information Management, Social Science & Medicine, Computers in Human Behavior, New Media & Society, and Higher Education). Publications include a seminal monograph on cyberhate and cybervictimization (Online Hate and Harmful Content: Cross-National Perspectives, Routledge, 2017).

Responsibilities

Vice Dean for Research (>400 people at the faculty of social sciences; responsibilities at the university administration)

Director of Emerging Technologies Lab (>20 people at the lab; leadership and supervision in research)

Full professor (research and research management, MA and PhD level teaching in social psychology at the degree program for social sciences) 

Board member of Research Council for Culture and Society, Academy of Finland (2022–2024, annual budget ca. 60M€) 

Board member of Finnish Research Infrastructures Committee, Academy of Finland (2022–2025, annual budget ca. 30M€)

Research topics

artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, human-technology interaction, social media, internet, online aggression, online hate, online harassment, self and identity, severe targeted violence, addiction, gambling, wellbeing

Research unit

Faculty of social sciences

Research fields

Social psychology, psychology, criminology, sociology, social sciences, health sciences, cultural studies

Research career

Current position 

2024– Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland

2018– Professor of Social Psychology (full), Tampere University, Finland  

2014–2018 Professor of Social Psychology (tenure-track), University of Tampere Finland 

2013–2016 PI, Hate Communities: A Cross-National Comparison Project (Kone Foundation), University of Turku, Finland 

2013–2014 Senior researcher, National Research Institute of Legal Policy, Ministry of Justice, Finland  

2012–2013 Senior researcher, Finnish Youth Research Network, Helsinki  

2009–2012 PI, Everyday Life and Insecurity (Aaltonen Foundation), University of Turku, Finland 

2009–2011 PI, post-doctoral researcher’s project Images of Addiction in Rock Culture, University of Tampere, Finland  

2007–2008 Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Tampere, Finland 

2002–2006 Research fellow, University of Tampere, Finland 

Education and degrees awarded 

2011 Title of docent, sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland  

2011 Title of docent, sociology, University of Turku, Finland


2008 Title of docent, social psychology, University of Tampere, Finland  

2006 Doctor of Social Sciences, social psychology, University of Tampere, Finland 

2004 Licentiate of Social Sciences, social psychology, University of Tampere, Finland 

2004 Master of Arts, Finnish literature, University of Tampere, Finland  

2001 Master of Social Sciences, social psychology, University of Tampere, Finland  

About me

Prof. E.S. Lohan received an MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnics University of Bucharest (1997), a DEA degree in Econometrics at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1998), and a PhD degree in Telecommunications from Tampere University of Technology (2003). She is now a Full Professor at the Electrical Engineering unit at Tampere University (former Tampere University of Technology) and a Visiting Professor at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain (spcomnav group). She is leading a research group on Signal processing for wireless positioning (www.cs.tut.fi/tlt/pos). She is a co-editor of the first book on Galileo satellite system (Springer "Galileo Positioning technology"), co-editor of a Springer book on "Multi-technology positioning", and author or co-author in more than 250 international peer-reviewed publications, 6 patents and inventions. She is also an associate Editor for RIN Journal of Navigation and for IET Journal on Radar, Sonar, and Navigation. She is now the coordinator of the H2020 MSCA European Joint Doctorate A-WEAR (www.a-wear.eu), 2019-2022.

Field of expertise

signal processing for wireless positioning; GNSS algorithms; wearable computing; privacy-aware indoor and outdoor localization; digital contact tracing; interference detection, mitigation, and classification; RF fingerprinting; IoT localization

Research unit

https://www.tuni.fi/en/about-us/electrical-engineering

Research fields

Wireless positioning, UMTS/WCDMA mobile positioning, GNSS (Galileo, GPS and modernised GPS, GLONASS, Beidou), CDMA signal processing algorithms, baseband receiver processing such as acquisition and tracking, Binary Offset Carrier (BOC) modulation studies, accurate tracking in multipath channels, unambiguous acquisition of BOC/MBOC signals, sidelobe cancellation methods, wireless channel modelling, Carrier To Noise Ratio (CNR) estimators, Simulink-based models for Galileo and GPS receivers, WLAN-based positioning, cellular based positioning, user-driven Location Based Services, user surveys and statistical analysis, compressed sensing for WLAN localisation, 3D localisation and floor detection, spectrum sensing for location purposes, signals of opportunity, 5G positioning, convergence of communication and navigation signals, users mobility models, privacy and physical layer security in mobile localisation, interference detection, classification, mitigation, and localization, location-based beamforming, IoT communication and localization, communication and positioning algorthims for commercial aviation, general aviation and Unmanned Aerial Vehickes (UAVs), location-based e-health applications, industrial internet, etc.