Veikko Isotalo

Veikko Isotalo

PhD candidate in Political Science

University of Helsinki

Biography

Veikko Isotalo is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Helsinki. His PhD thesis is focused on effects of ideology on political candidates' electoral success in multi-party open-list systems. Veikko is currently coordinating a research project on voting advice applications (YouthVAA). He is an active member of IntraComp and FNES. Veikko holds a master’s degree in both political science and science (technology).

See my curriculum vitae.

Interests
  • Voting advice applications (VAAs)
  • Electoral research
  • Computational social sciences
  • Data science
Education
  • M.Sc. (Technology) in Information Networks, 2020

    Aalto University

  • MSSc in Political Science, 2019

    University of Helsinki

  • BSc in Political Science, 2018

    University of Helsinki

  • BSc in Information Networks, 2016

    Aalto University

Accomplish­ments

Rajapinta thesis award 2021 (Designing Voting Advice Applications)