Professor Merja Tornikoski Director of Metsähovi Radio Observatory at Aalto University Metsähovintie 114 FIN-02540 Kylmälä Finland Tel. +358-9-42832048 Fax +358-9-2564531

 

Research interests

Active Galactic Nuclei:

• Radio variability: long term behaviour, statistics, source populations, radio variability models
• Radio to gamma-ray connection in blazars, gamma-ray emission mechanisms
• Radio vs. optical behaviour
• Multifrequency studies
• Inverted-spectrum / Gigahertz-peaked spectrum sources
• BL Lacertae Objects
• Southern and equatorial AGNs / SEST observations
• Contribution to the extragalactic foreground (Planck satellite WG6 activities)

Other professional interests

• Continuum observations at mm & submm wavelengths
• Astronomical on-line catalogues & data mining
• Satellite astronomy
• Computing techniques, artificial intelligence
• Manned spaceflight

My CV.
My astronomy lectures pages.

My astronomy hotlist, with lots of links to my research topics.

Right now I'd rather be...

My other links:

Belgian Sheepdogs

Scuba diving