Tuomas Väisänen
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolTuomas Väisänen is a postdoctoral researcher in Helsinki with eight years of experience studying urban geography, GIScience, and mobility, focusing on how languages and everyday movement shape segregation and regional population dynamics. He combines spatial analysis, statistics, computer vision and natural language processing to extract linguistic and activity signals from large social and registry datasets, aiming to inform socially sustainable urban planning. His PhD work mapped spatio-temporal patterns of linguistic diversity and mobility-driven processes like gentrification, bridging geoinformatics, ecology-inspired metrics and computational linguistics. An experienced instructor at University of Helsinki and Aalto, he pairs rigorous quantitative skills with practical teaching and open-source GIS interests. Outside academia he’s an avid longboarder and disc golfer, suggesting a hands-on, exploratory approach to both fieldwork and research.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ylioppilastutkinto, Ylioppilastutkinto at Vuosaaren lukioDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Urban Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Urban Geography at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (50)
python-development10
qt10
spyder10
ide10
language-server-protocol10
anaconda10
pyqt10
development-environment10
twitter-api9
python9
credentials8
latex8
twitter8
paths7
api7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DigitalGeographyLab/tweetsearcher
Apr 2021 - Feb 2023
A Python tool to download Tweets using Academic Research credentials and the API v2.
Contributions:3 releases, 48 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 9 months
apipythonacademic-researchtwitter-apitwitter
DigitalGeographyLab/some-parkbaskets
Nov 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 5 months
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