Kaisa Airo
Master of Social Science (Sociology)
Doctoral Student, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Kaisa Airo is a researcher in CEM Facility Services Research Group at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Kaisas research interests are in social construction of space and the user experience. While her Master thesis dealt with the conception of home environment and living, in Pro Work Project she was concentrating on workplace management issues. Besides her work for the CEM Facility Services Research Group, Kaisa is pursuing a PhD at the Helsinki University of Technology.
Petra Bosch-Sijtsema
Ph.D. in Management & Organization,
Senior researcher Helsinki University of Technology, BIT research center, Espoo, Finland
Visiting scholar Stanford University, Project Based Learning lab, Stanford, USA
Research areas:
(1) Global and distributed settings and New Ways of Working topics. In these fields she studies issues like management, knowledge work productivity, collaboration, coordination, power and culture issues as well as workplaces: i.e., physical, virtual and social workplaces for distributed knowledge work.
(2) Innovation, knowledge transfer, coordination and governance in inter-organizational cooperation and project-based industries.
(3) Global software development (agile teams) and software ecosystems.
Renate Fruchter
Renate Fruchter Research Associate of the Department of Civil Engineering and the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE), at Stanford University.
Dr. Renate Fruchter is the founding director of the Project Based Learning Laboratory (PBL Lab), at Stanford. Her R&D focuses on collaboration technologies for multidisciplinary, geographically distributed teamwork, and e-Learning, such as Web-based team building, knowledge capture, sharing and re-use, project memory, corporate memory, mobile solutions, interactive workspaces, and mixed reality environments. She established in 1998 a research effort that studies the impact of technology on learning, team dynamics, and assessment. She is the leader and developer of the innovative "Computer Integrated Architecture/Engineering/Construction Global Teamwork" course launched in 1993 at Stanford, that engages universities from US, Asia, and Europe.
Nils Gersberg
Nils Gersberg is a researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He holds a Master of Science degree in Total Facility Management and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hon's.) in the same field from the University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany. In addition to his studies in Germany. In addition to his work for the Construction Economics and Management Laboratory, Mr Gersberg holds a position as visiting lecturer in the Department of Hospitality Management at Turku Polytechnic.
Before joining CEM, Mr Gersberg has held jobs in customer support in the IT sector and has been acting vice-president of a national interest group for students in Germany. Additionally Mr Gersberg has been actively involved in the further development of the undergraduate degree program in Total Facility Management at the University of Applied Science Münster.
The focus of Mr Gersberg's research in CEM lies in Workplace Management. Currently Mr Gersberg concentrates on workplace issues both on the national and international level.
Inka Kojo
Industrial Design
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Suvi Nenonen
Suvi Nenonen Dr, Senior researcher, Docent, Workplace Management
Helsinki University of Technology
Suvi works as a research manager in Facility Services Research Group at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Suvi´s expertise lies in the workplace management, user experience and user orientated places and spaces. She is also a long time developer of facilities services and management education. She has an extensive experience of creating and supporting both national and international networks in the field of facilities management. She holds a docentship in the Tampere University of Technology.
Peggie Rothe
Master of Science (Tech.), Doctoral Student
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Virpi Ruohomäki
Dr, senior researcher, work and organizational psychologist
Virpi Ruohomäki acts as a senior researcher at Helsinki University of Technology, BIT Research Centre. Her research areas cover knowledge work, distributed teams and organizations, mobile and multi-locational work, new workplace solutions and office environments, i.e. physical, virtual and social workplaces, as well as organization development and simulation games. She is collaborating with the Stanford University, Project Based Learning Laboratory, in the ProWork -project (2007-2009) and worked as a visiting scholar at Stanford University, USA, during summer 2008. She has been working in several applied research projects with companies and multi-disciplinary groups in Finland, in Europe under the European Innovation program and with MIT, USA. She received her Ph.D and licentiate degrees at Helsinki University of Technology, and she graduated from the University of Helsinki.
Kati Rusanen
Kati Rusanen
Student of Architechture
Helsinki University of Technology
Matti Vartiainen
Ph.D., professor
Matti acts as the Professor of Learning Organization and the head of the unit of Work Psychology and Leadership (Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management). He is also responsible for Human-Centered Information System module in Information Networks Degree Programme, which is carried out as collaboration of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, and Department of Automation and Systems Technology. His teaching areas are learning, competence, and knowledge building; reward systems in organizations; knowledge support and collaborative working environments; sociotechnical work system analysis and design; and change management. He is a research director at BIT Research Centre leading the Virtual and Mobile Work Research Unit. His research interests cover the fields of organizational innovations, new ways of working, mobile and multi-locational work, distributed teams and organizations, reward systems, knowledge and competence building, collaboration, and e-learning systems.
