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Matti Jantunen is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in Finland. Their research spans various disciplines primarily focused on medicine and environmental science.

Their work engages deeply with subjects in the subfields of health, toxicology and mutagenesis, psychiatry and mental health, global and planetary change, radiological and ultrasound technology, and safety, risk, reliability and quality.

Jantunen's research topics cover key areas including:

  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Radioactivity and radon measurements
  • Nuclear and radioactivity studies
  • Health, environment, cognitive aging
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Environmental justice and health disparities
  • Infection control and ventilation

Recent publications by Jantunen and frequent collaborators have been published mainly in reputable venues such as Environment International, Helda (University of Helsinki), and Exploration of Neuroscience.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Airborne and deposited radioactivity from the Chernobyl accident: a review of investigations in Finland" (2024), Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • "Pandemic management requires exposure science" (2022), Environment International
  • "Advancing exposure knowledge and its uptake into policy: The European exposure science strategy 2020-2030 (Special Issue)" (2022), Environment International
  • "Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) responsive to single-dose olanzapine: a case report" (2025), Exploration of neuroscience

Jantunen has collaborated frequently with researchers such as Jussi Paatero, Kaarle Hämeri, Timo Jaakkola, Janne Koivukoski, and R Saxén, each appearing as co-authors in recent publications.

Best Publications

  • Indoor time-microenvironment-activity patterns in seven regions of Europe

    Christian Schweizer;Rufus David Edwards;Lucy Bayer-Oglesby;William James Gauderman

  • Environmental burden of disease in Europe : assessing nine risk factors in six countries

    Otto Hänninen;Anne B. Knol;Matti Jantunen;Tek-Ang Lim

  • The concentrations and composition of and exposure to fine particles (PM2.5) in the Helsinki subway system

    Päivi Aarnio;Tarja Yli-Tuomi;Anu Kousa;Timo Mäkelä

  • Spatial and temporal trends in the mortality burden of air pollution in China: 2004–2012

    Miaomiao Liu;Yining Huang;Zongwei Ma;Zhou Jin

  • Current state of the science: health effects and indoor environmental quality.

    Clifford S Mitchell;Junfeng Jim Zhang;Torben Sigsgaard;Matti Jantunen

  • VOC concentrations measured in personal samples and residential indoor, outdoor and workplace microenvironments in EXPOLIS-Helsinki, Finland

    Rufus Edwards;Jouni Jurvelin;Kristina Saarela;Matti Jantunen

  • Personal exposures and microenvironment concentrations of PM2.5, VOC, NO2 and CO in Oxford, UK

    Hak Kan Lai;M Kendall;H Ferrier;I Lindup

  • Infiltration of ambient PM2.5 and levels of indoor generated non-ETS PM2.5 in residences of four European cities

    O.O. Hänninen;E. Lebret;V. Ilacqua;K. Katsouyanni

  • VOC source identification from personal and residential indoor, outdoor and workplace microenvironment samples in EXPOLIS-Helsinki, Finland

    Rufus D. Edwards;J. Jurvelin;K. Koistinen;K. Saarela

  • Integrated systems for forecasting urban meteorology, air pollution and population exposure

    A. Baklanov;O. Hänninen;L. H. Slørdal;J. Kukkonen

  • Comparison of black smoke and PM2.5 levels in indoor and outdoor environments of four European cities

    Thomas Gotschi;Lucy Oglesby;Patrick Mathys;Christian Monn

  • The indoor air quality in finnish homes with mold problems

    A. Nevalainen;A.-L. Pasanen;M. Niininen;T. Reponen

  • Normal Range Criteria for Indoor Air Bacteria and Fungal Spores in a Subarctic Climate

    T. Reponen;A. Nevalainen;M. Jantunen;M. Pellikka

  • Validity of Ambient Levels of Fine Particles as Surrogate for Personal Exposure to Outdoor Air Pollution—Results of the European EXPOLIS-EAS Study (Swiss Center Basel)

    Lucy Oglesby;Nino Künzli;Martin Röösli;Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer

  • The INDEX project: executive summary of a European Union project on indoor air pollutants.

    K. Koistinen;D. Kotzias;S. Kephalopoulos;C. Schlitt

  • Laboratory studies on the relationship between fungal growth and atmospheric temperature and humidity

    A.-L. Pasanen;P. Kalliokoski;P. Pasanen;M.J. Jantunen

  • Behavioral and environmental determinants of personal exposures to PM2.5 in EXPOLIS – Helsinki, Finland

    Kimmo J Koistinen;Otto Hänninen;Tuulia Rotko;Rufus D Edwards

  • Exposure chain of urban air PM2.5-associations between ambient fixed site, residential outdoor, indoor, workplace and personal exposures in four European cities in the EXPOLIS-study

    Anu Kousa;Lucy Oglesby;Kimmo Koistinen;Nino Künzli

  • Fine particle (PM2.5) measurement methodology, quality assurance procedures, and pilot results of the EXPOLIS study

    Kimmo J. Koistinen;Anu Kousa;Virpi Tenhola;Otto Hänninen

  • Personal exposures to NO2 in the EXPOLIS-study: relation to residential indoor, outdoor and workplace concentrations in Basel, Helsinki and Prague

    Anu Kousa;Christian Monn;Tuulia Rotko;Sari Alm

  • Environmental Burden of Disease in Europe: Assessing Nine Risk Factors in Six Countries

    Otto Hänninen;Anne B. Knol;Matti Jantunen;Tek-Ang Lim

Frequent Co-Authors

Otto Hänninen
Otto Hänninen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Nino Künzli
Nino Künzli University of Basel
Klea Katsouyanni
Klea Katsouyanni National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Rufus Edwards
Rufus Edwards University of California, Irvine
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Thomas E. McKone
Thomas E. McKone University of California, Berkeley
Jaakko Kukkonen
Jaakko Kukkonen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Aino Nevalainen
Aino Nevalainen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Raimo O. Salonen
Raimo O. Salonen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Peter Fantke
Peter Fantke Technical University of Denmark

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