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Dr. Sohvi Lommi works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Fin-HIT research group at the Folkhälsan Research Center in Helsinki. Her research focuses on conventional and non-conventional determinants of excess weight and weight gain from early adolescence into emerging adulthood, with a specific interest in circadian rhythms and their associated health outcomes, as well as […]

Veera Houttu is a postdoctoral researcher in the Nutrition and Food Research Center at the University of Turku, Finland. She completed her PhD as Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in Amsterdam UMC at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with particular focus in metabolism and gut microbiota, and lifestyle–cardiometabolic disease interactions. Previously, she completed her Master’s Thesis […]

Dr. M. Tanvir Rahman is a postdoctoral researcher in the Mitochondria and Nutrient Signaling Research Group at the Research Unit of Biomedicine and Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland. His research focuses on identifying novel therapeutic strategies by targeting mitochondrial pathways, particularly in the context of obesity and metabolic dysfunction. As mitochondria […]

Hanna Haltia (MD) is a doctoral researcher aiming to understand how individual characteristics, such as sex and postprandial GLP-1 response, shape the biology of adipose tissue in obesity and contribute to metabolic health. Her work takes place in the Obesity Research Unit in the University of Helsinki. Since writing her award-winning medical thesis about RNA […]

Johanna Matilainen (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher in the research groups of docent Sini Heinonen and professor Kirsi Pietiläinen, at the Obesity Research Unit, University of Helsinki. She completed her BSc and MSc studies in cell and molecular biology at the University of Jyväskylä and her doctoral studies in molecular medicine at the University of […]