
Ilya Usoskin
group leader
Professor, Head of Oulu cosmic ray station
ilya.usoskin at oulu.fi
Area of expertise: cosmic ray variability, solar activity, space climate, solar-terrestrial relations, atmospheric effects.

Alexandar Mishev
Senior researcher, Docent
alexander.mishev at oulu.fi
Area of expertise: computer simulations, solar-terrestrial relations, space climate, and atmospheric effects.

Shipra Sinha
Postdoctoral Researcher
sinha.shipra at oulu.fi
Area of expertise: magnetospheric dynamics, MHD models.

Stepan Poluianov
Senior Researcher, Docent
stepan.poluianov at oulu.fi
Area of expertise: Cosmic ray measurements, neutron monitors, modelling of energetic particle interaction with matter, time series analysis.

Sergey Koldobskiy
Researcher, Docent
sergey.koldobskiy at oulu.fi
Area of expertise: spectral analysis, heliospheric effects, space climate, data analysis and signal processing.

Kseniia Golubenko
Postdoctoral Researcher
kseniia.golubenko at oulu.fi
Area of expertise: atmospheric physics, atmospheric effects, transport of cosmogenic isotopes.

Pauli Väisänen
Postdoctoral Researcher
pauli.väisänen at oulu.fi
Area of expertise: analysis of satellite experiment data, spectral analysis.

Bertalan Major
PhD Student
bertalan.major at oulu.fi
Area of expertise: space plasma physics, magnetospheric dynamics.

Markus Similä
Master Student
Markus.Simila at student.oulu.fi
Area of expertise: Cosmic ray measurements, neutron monitors.
VISITING SCIENTISTS
Gennady Kovalstov
Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Agnieszka Gil
Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Siedlce, Poland.
Mélanie Baroni
CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Timofei Sukhodolov
PMOD/WRC, Davos, Switzerland.
Eugene Rozanov
PMOD/WRC, Davos, Switzerland.
Edouard Bard
CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
FORMER TEAM MEMBERS
Leon Kocharov
Senior researcher, Space Climate Research Unit, until 2024.
Nicholas Larsen
PhD student, Space Climate Research Unit, 2021-2025, defended in Feb. 2025.
Evgeny Maurchev
PhD student, Space Climate Research Unit, 2021-2022.
Anton Artamonov
PhD student, Thule Institute, Space Climate Research Unit.
PhD in Space Physics at the University of Oulu in 2013-2016, defended in Apr. 2017.
Eleanna Asvestari
PhD student, Space Climate Research Unit.
PhD in Space Physics at the University of Oulu in 2014-2016, defended in Dec. 2016.
Raisa Leussu
PhD student, Space Climate Research Unit.
PhD in Space Physics at the University of Oulu in 2015-2016, defended in 2016.
Alessandra Pacini
PhD student, ReSoLVE and University of Vale do Paraíba, Brazil.
PhD in Space Physics at the University of Oulu in 2014-2015, defended in 2015.