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Grants from Matti Lehti fund for the year 2026 awarded
The Matti Lehti fund has been donated to develop and encourage research, teaching and studies on digital information society in the School of Business
The Dean of the School of Business Timo Korkeamäki has made a decision on Matti Lehti grants for the year 2026.
The Matti Lehti fund has been donated to develop and encourage research, teaching and studies on digital information society in the School of Business. The School of Business is co-funding part of the grants. These funds must be used by the end of year 2027.
Grants are given to:
- Professor Tomas Falk: research visit travel expenses related to a study titled “Smart wearing and hidden consumer labor – consumer practices with digital health technologies”, 2000€
- Senior University Lecturer Sami Kajalo: conference travel expenses related to a study titled “Preparing Future Business Leaders for the Digital Information Society: Teaching AI-Related Skills and Responsible AI Use”, 2000€
- Research Fellow Owais Khan: conference travel expenses related to a study titled “The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in driving sustainability-related decision-making in organizations”, 2000€
- Senior University Lecturer Leena Lankoski: conference travel expenses related to a study titled “AI systems and the concept of “sufficient care”, 1800€
- Assistant Professor Ilkka Leppänen: research expenses related to a study titled “Movement and Preference Formation in Digital Choice Sets”, 3000€
- Professor Arto Lindblom: research visit travel expenses related to a study titled “A Study of Japanese Management Practices in the Age of Digitalization and AI”, 2000€
- Associate Professor Yong Liu: research expenses related to a study titled “A Longitudinal Study on The impact of AI-Enabled Robots on Psychological Well-being”, 1500€
- Doctoral researcher Arash Naghdi: conference travel expenses related to a study titled “Problematizing Algorithmic Exhaustion in Hyper-Immersive Digital Markets”, 1700€
- Professor Matti Rossi: research expenses related to a study titled “Understanding How Students Use AI Coding Agents for Software Development”, 4000€
- Doctoral researcher Mostafa Sadeghi: research expenses related to a study titled “Security Education, Training, and Awareness (SETA) at the Edge of the Metaverse”, 4000€
- Postdoctoral researcher Heini-Emilia Saari: research expenses related to a study titled “Planning Decarbonization”, 2400€
- Associate Professor Eeva Vilkkumaa: research expenses related to a study titled ”Comparing stated, elicited and incentivized risk preferences”, 600€
- Associate Professor Eeva Vilkkumaa: research expenses related to a study titled “Future-ready blood services: Scenario-based decision support for renewing the Finnish blood supply chain”, 3000€
The total amount of grants in 2026 is 30,000 euros.
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