Jouni

Helske

I am an Academy Research Fellow in Statistics at the University of Turku. I lead the CAUSALTIME project where we develop new Bayesian methods for estimation of short- and long-term causal effects based on complex panel data, using for example dynamic multivariate panel models, hidden Markov models, and synthetic control methods. I also do applied statistics in social science, but also in fields such as epidemiology.

I was previously a PI of the Statistics subproject of the PREDLIFE Consortium at University of Jyväskylä.

I am also an associate editor of the R Journal and rOpenSci statistical software initiative, and an open science ambassador of Open Science Community Turku.

I completed my PhD in statistics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in 2015. Following my PhD I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Jyväskylä, at Linköping University, at University of Jyväskylä (again), and Senior Researcher at University of Jyväskylä, before joining the University of Turku.