Kaisa Västilä

I am currently working as a part-time Postdoctoral Researcher. I mainly focus on advising doctoral students and on teaching at Aalto WAT courses, in addition to international research collaborations. 

My expertise covers the flow of water and the transport of sediment and nutrients in rivers, streams and ditches. The applied focus is on developing and assessing nature-based solutions in river and agricultural water management. I am particularly interested in the complex interactions between flow, vegetation and riverine transport and retention processes.

My current main international collaborators include Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, University of Sheffield, Deltares, Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Warsaw University of Life Sciences.

My current main national collaborators are University of Helsinki and the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke). My main affiliation is Syke, where I work as Senior Researcher. 

You can follow my work at  https://bsky.app/profile/kaisavastila.bsky.social