Research output per year
Research output per year
PL 4 (Vuorikatu 3)
00014
Finland
PL 4 (Vuorikatu 3), 305
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Finland
Finland
Research activity per year
Tuomas Heikkilä (b. 1972), PhD, docent in general history and and church history (University of Helsinki) and docent in Finnish history (University of Turku), is one of the most influential Finnish medievalists. Currently employed at the University of Helsinki as the Professor in Church History, he has previously been the Director of the Finnish research institute in Rome, Italy, (2013-2017); Visiting Research Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (2010); and Visiting Scholar at the University of Gothenburg (2009).
Heikkilä's almae matres are the University of Helsinki, the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany, as well as the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana where he took the European Diploma in Medieval Studies.
Originally a historian, Heikkilä has emphasized multidisciplinary scholarship. His fields of expertise include written culture and the change of information environment, medieval hagiography, manuscript studies, monastic history, and computer-assisted stemmatology. Heikkilä has published widely on these topics in several languages.
Heikkilä wrote his doctoral thesis (Vita et miracula s. Symeonis Treverensis – ein hochmittelalterlicher Heiligenkult im Kontext, Academia Scientiarum Fennica 2002) on high medieval hagiography in Western Europe. Later on, he expanded his expertise to include Nordic hagiography and edited the legend of St Henry, the Finnish national saint. The studies resulted in monographs in Finnish and Swedish as well as the first critical edition of the oldest literary work composed in Finland.
In 2006–2011, Heikkilä directed a large-scale research project on the arrival and development of written culture in Finland. The project resulted in a detailed picture of the implications of Latin written culture in a European periphery as well as a research database of the fragmenta membranea collection of the National Library of Finland. Heikkilä has also been one of the driving forces behind the two other Finnish databases on medieval sources: the Diplomatarium Fennicum and the Codices Fennici.
In 2009–2012, Tuomas Heikkilä directed Studia Stemmatologica, an international multidisciplinary scholarly network concentrating on exploring the possibilities and different uses of computer-assisted stemmatology.
In 2013-2017, Heikkilä was the director of the oldest and most prestigious Finnish scholarly institute abroad, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae. In Rome, Heikkilä's research group concentrated on the study of different aspects of time and calendars in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Director, Professor, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae
1 Aug 2013 → 31 Jul 2017
Associate Professor in Finnish history (Title of Docent), University of Turku
Mar 2013 → …
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or special issue › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis › Monograph
Heikkilä, T., Nuorteva, J., Lahtinen, A., Salonen, K., Lamberg, M., Salminen, T., Gejrot, C., Risberg, S., Ståhl, P., Andersson, R., Kristiansen Ugulen, J. R., Hedemann, M., Hansen, T., Adams, J., Devantier, M. & Leegaard Knudsen, A.
01/01/2007 → …
Project: Research project
Heikkilä, T., Mortensen, L. B., Ommundsen, Å., Gejrot, C. & Már Gunnlaugsson, G.
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2022
Project: Research project
Leinonen, L., Eskola, S., Heikkilä, T., Lahtinen, A., Salminen, K., Lamberg, M., Sandelin, M., Tiisala, S., Happonen, P., Haukkovaara, V., Mandrov, D., Kotivuori, Y. & Wilenius, A.
01/11/2015 → 03/03/2018
Project: Research project
Heikkilä, Tuomas (Recipient), 2003
Prize: Prizes and awards
Heikkilä, Tuomas (Recipient), 2006
Prize: Prizes and awards
Heikkilä, Tuomas (Recipient), 29 Nov 2010
Prize: Prizes and awards
Heikkilä, Tuomas (Recipient), 1997
Prize: Prizes and awards
Tuomas Heikkilä (Chair of organizing committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Tuomas Heikkilä (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Tuomas Heikkilä (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Tuomas Heikkilä (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Tuomas Heikkilä (Speaker: Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars