People

We have 12 senior research staff, 7 junior research staff (PhD students and other) and 3 administrative staff.

We believe firmly that PhD studies are work and make every effort to offer our PhD students paid positions.

Senior research staff

• Irina Astrova, PhD, senior researcher
• Silvio Capobianco, PhD, senior researcher
• Hele-Mai Haav, CSc, senior researcher
• Mait Harf, CSc, researcher
• Wolfgang Jeltsch, PhD, senior researcher
• Ahto Kalja, CSc, senior researcher
• Riina Maigre, PhD, appointed researcher
• Andres Ojamaa, PhD, researcher
• Jaan Penjam, CSc, project manager
• Hellis Tamm, PhD, senior researcher
• Enn Tyugu, DSc, member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, consultant
• Tarmo Uustalu, PhD, member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, leading research scientist, head of the lab

Junior research staff

• Denis Firsov, PhD, junior researcher
• Kristiina Kindel, engineer, PhD student (supervised by Ahto Kalja)
• Vahur Kotkas, manager of development projects
• Hendrik Maarand, engineer, PhD student (supervised by Tarmo Uustalu)
• Jelena Sanko, engineer
• Margarita Spitšakova, engineer, PhD student (supervised by Jaan Penjam)
• Niccolò Veltri, junior researcher, PhD student (supervised by Tarmo Uustalu and James Chapman)

Administrative staff

• Eve Kann, project administrator
• Tiina Laasma, project administrator
• Monika Perkmann, information systems administrator (part of the institute administration)

Former members

• James Chapman, PhD
• Mohamed El-Zawawy, PhD
• Adam Eppendahl, PhD
• Grigory Fedyukovich, PhD
• Pavel Grigorenko, PhD
• Peeter Laud, PhD
• Marion Lepmets, PhD
• Andreas Nagel
• Keiko Nakata, PhD
• Ando Saabas, PhD
• Andri Saar
• Sandra Schumann
• Olha Shkaravska, PhD
• Boriss Šelajev
• Ilja Tšahhirov, PhD
• Elmo Todurov
• Andres Toom
• Sergei Tupailo, PhD
• Kristi Uustalu
• Varmo Vene, PhD