This is our staff!
Professor Matti Vartiainen
PhD (in psychology), Research Director, general management of the projects.
Research areas: work system innovations, reward systems, competences and knowledge management in projects.
Leisure interests: hiking in nature and cities, jogging, cross-country and downhill skiing, squash and fist-ball; hard-core crime stories, science fiction, fluent listening of music.
Research Manager Anu Sivunen
PhD in Communication
Research areas: virtual teams, virtual environments, group communication, communication
technologies, social identification
Leisure interests: spinning, snowboarding and other sports, social media, literature
Post Doctoral Researcher Marko Hakonen
PhD in Organizational Psychology
Research areas: virtual teams, organizational justice, trust, identifications.
Leisure interests: good food and wine, traveling, sea life, detective stories.
Publications
Post Doctoral Researcher Niina Nurmi
PhD in Organizational Psychology
Research areas: well-being and stress, competences, leadership, global work, virtual teams
Leisure interests: music, literature, traveling, Pilates and other sports
Researcher Satu Koivisto
M.Soc.Sc. (Social psychology), PhD Student at Aalto
Research areas: leadership, organizational justice, social identity, change, virtual teams.
Leisure interests: cross-country skiing and other sports, travelling, good food and wine.
Researcher Teemu Surakka
M.Sc. (Tech.), PhD Student at Aalto
teemu.surakka @ aalto.fi
phone +358 50 381 9787
Research areas: virtual environments, knowledge intensive firms, value networks
Researcher Johan Lönnblad
M.Sc. (Tech)
Research areas: Virtual and mobile work
Leisure interests: Gym, cycling, swimming, tennis and literature
Working from China
Researcher Emma Nordbäck
M.Sc (Tech)
http://twitter.com/enordbac
Research areas: Virtual teams, virtual environments, technology-mediated communication, user experience and usability
Leisure interests: running (marathon), cross-country skiing, friends, cultures, traveling, good food, social media, photography
Aim of this year: Get one great article published, finish a marathon under 4 hours, and learn to write fluent in finnish 
Doctoral Student Eero Palomäki
M.Sc. (Tech)
http://twitter.com/eerojp
I am a technology enthusiastic combined with business understanding. My special interests are education, training and information management and future technological solutions such as virtual worlds. You can find an example virtual world training project from: http://bit.ly/lablife
Research areas: Virtual and mobile work, training
Leisure interests: Helsinki Match Race Sailing, Climbing, Tennis
Research Assistant Olli Jahkola
Student of technology
Research areas: distributed teams
Leisure interests: gym, capoeira, gaming, music and literature
Ph.D. Student Pekka Alahuhta
M.Sc (Tech)
Research areas: Collaboration in innovation process and ideation, implementations of collaborative systems, virtual and mobile work.
Leisure interests: Gym, running and other sports, preferably Finnish literature.
