Veli-Pekka Kivinen

Veli-Pekka Kivinen, university lecturer

  • PL 27 (Latokartanonkaari 7)

    00014

    Finland

  • Viikinkaari 1, Biokeskus 3

    00790 Helsinki

    Finland

1990 …2022

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Description of research and teaching

Dr. Veli-Pekka Kivinen (born 1966) has worked as a research assistant, project researcher, and university lecturer at the Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki since 1993. He has participated in several forest technology R&D projects dealing with, among others, pre-harvest measurement of forest stands, forest visualization and optimal wood allocation and tree bucking. His PhD thesis “Design and testing of stand-specific bucking instructions for use on modern cut-to-length harvesters” was awarded as the best thesis defended during 2007 at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki. The thesis was also awarded the prize for the best doctoral thesis of the year 2007 in forest sciences by the Finnish Society of Forest Science. Kivinen has authored and co-authored 30 publications of which 10 are peer-reviewed scientific articles. He has also programmed two commercial computer software packages (EMO pre-harvest measurement program and Smartforest 3D forest visualizer) and several non-commercial computer applications in the field of bucking optimization.

Fields of Science

  • 4112 Forestry
  • Sustainable Forest Value Chains (SUVALUE)

    Amberla, T. (Participant), Barua, S. K. (Participant), Bayazidi, S. (Participant), Berghäll, S. (Participant), Cao, T. (Participant), Dahlin, B. (Principal Investigator), Eyvindson, K. (Participant), Favada, I. M. (Participant), Haltia, E. (Participant), Havimo, M. (Participant), Honkajärvi, R. (Participant), Holopainen, M. (Principal Investigator), Horne, P. (Participant), Hovi, A. (Participant), Hujala, T. (Participant), Hyyppä, H. (Participant), Juslin, H. (Principal Investigator), Jylhä, P. (Participant), Kaakkurivaara, T. (Participant), Kangas, A. (Principal Investigator), Kantola, T. (Participant), Karppinen, H. (Principal Investigator), Kettula, K. (Participant), Kivinen, V.-P. (Participant), Korhonen-Sande, S. (Participant), Korpela, I. (Principal Investigator), Korpunen, H. (Participant), Kuuluvainen, J. (Principal Investigator), Laamanen, R. (Participant), Laurila, J. M. (Participant), Leino, O. P. T. (Participant), Li, N. (Participant), Lyhykäinen, H. T. (Participant), Manavakun, N. (Participant), Melkas, T. (Participant), Mynttinen, S. (Participant), Mäkinen, A. (Participant), Mönkkönen, P. (Participant), Neuvonen, M. (Participant), Petty, A. (Participant), Pohjola, J. (Participant), Primmer, E. (Participant), Rantala, T. (Participant), Rasinmäki, J. (Participant), Rekola, M. (Principal Investigator), Rikala, J. (Participant), Rissanen, A. (Participant), Räty, M. (Participant), Saarela, S. (Participant), Sipi, M. (Principal Investigator), Talvitie, M. (Participant), Toivonen, R. (Participant), Toppinen, A. (Principal Investigator), Valkeapää, A. (Participant), Valsta, L. (Principal Investigator), Wan, M. (Participant), Wang, L. (Participant), Vastaranta, M. (Participant) & Xia, B. S. (Participant)

    23/02/201131/12/2015

    Project: Research Evaluation 2011

  • Puun jalostusketjujen arvonmuodostus ja niiden optimointi

    Kivinen, V.-P. (Project manager)

    Finnish Foerst Res Inst

    01/01/200830/06/2011

    Project: Research project

  • Scaling of wood raw material

    Sipi, M. (Principal Investigator), Rikala, J. (Participant) & Kivinen, V.-P. (Participant)

    01/01/200431/12/2009

    Project: Research project