Hi, I am Jonas Oppenlaender ().

Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Oulu, Finland.

I love building cool stuff that is useful and/or meaningful to people.

I completed my PhD in the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Oulu, where I received a distinction for my thesis on creative crowdsourcing, creativity support tools, and crowd feedback systems. During my PhD I was awarded two times the Nokia Scholarship (2019, 2020). I also hold a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science with distinction from the University of Southampton and a diploma degree (Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur; equivalent to an M.Sc.) in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. I also studied New Product Development for one year at Linköping University in Sweden.

In my research, I am interested in building socio-technical systems that allow humans and technology to work together to achieve tasks that would be beyond their individual capabilities. In the past, I have focused on facilitating knowledge transfer and supporting complex creative work. My current research interests, based on the academic literature I read, are reflected on this page.

In my spare time, I enjoy dabbling with AI-generated art and I am a kettlebell salesman. I have lived, studied, and/or worked in several countries including Germany, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Macedonia, the United States, and Finland.