Tuomas Heikkilä#
Photo: Paula Virta
| Membership Number: | 6348 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/tuomas-heikkilä |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7346-2519 |
| Twitter: | @HeikkilaTuomas |
| Linkedin: | https://linkedin.com/in/tuomas-heikkilae/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Professor in Church History, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2017 - 2019 University Lecturer in Church History, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2013 - 2017 Director and Professor, the Finnish Scholarly Institute in Rome, Italy
- 2010 - 2013, 2017 - 2019 University Lecturer in Church History, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2010 Visiting Research Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden
- 2008 - 2012 Principal Investigator, The Written Culture in Medieval Finland project, the National Library, Finland
- 2007 Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Finland
- 2005 - 2010 Senior Research Fellow, Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies (Nordic Centre of Excellence)
- 2004, 2008 - 2009 Professor in General History (acting), University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2003, 2005 - 2007 University lecturer in General History, University of Helsinki, Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Medieval calendars
- Monastic history in the High Middle Ages
- Medieval calendars
- Medieval studies
- Computer-assisted stemmatology (the computer-assisted study of textual traditions, their development and dissemination)
- Finnish identity history
- Manuscript studies, especially medieval parchment fragments Hagiography and medieval saints' cults
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Invited to become the Master of Ceremonies in the Conferment Ceremony of 2023, University of Helsinki
- 2017 The Humanities Action of the Year (together with Academician Ilkka Niiniluoto)
- 2012 Bright Middle Ages prize for outstanding work in medieval studies, The Finnish Society for Medieval Studies
- 2010 Kungliga Samfundet för utgivande av handskrifter rörande Skandinaviens historia, Sweden
- 2010 Lauri Jäntti foundation prize for popularizing scholarship
- 2010 Chief Marshal of the Conferment Ceremony, University of Helsinki
- 2009 The Christian Book of the Year prize
- 2006 - 2021 The holder of Ernst and Ines Nevanlinna scholarly residence (by invitation of the Rector of the University of Helsinki)
- 2006 The Historical Work of the Year prize and Yrjö-Koskinen medal, Society of the Friends of History
- 2006 The Scholarly Book of the Year distinction, Finnish Historical Society
- 2003 Prize for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, the Finnish Academy for Sciences and Letters
- 2003 Doctor primus, University of Helsinki
