Professor, University of Tampere - Pertti Vakkari
- Professor, University of Tampere - Pertti Vakkari
Position Professor
Affiliation University of Tampere, Finland
Education PhD in information studies, University of Tampere 1983
Biodata
• Citations 3116, h-index 27 Google Scholar, June 4, 2014
• Chair 1998-2002and Member 2004-2008, Nordic Information Studies
Research Education Network
• University College London, 2008
• City University London, 2002
• Visiting professor, Rutgers University, 1997
• Member of the National Committee for Information Society Issues,
1996-1999
• Head of Department, Department of Information Studies, University
of Tampere, 1989-1998
Dr. Pertti Vakkari is professor of information studies at the School
of Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland. His research
interests include information seeking, task- based information searching,
fiction searching, methodologies for evaluating interactive information
retrieval, and the outcomes of public libraries. His work has appeared in
the proceedings of numerous conferences, in edited monographs and
journals such as Information Processing & Management and JASIST.
He is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Documentation,
and Information Processing & Management. Vakkari has been member
in several program committees of conferences like ISIC, IIiX, ECIR and
TPDL. He has given several invited speeches in various countries. He
received in 2012 ASIS&T SIGUSE Award for Outstanding Contributions
to Information Behavior.
