Doctoral Students

Hele-Riin Juhkama (2025), Knowledge Transfer Doctoral Student, Natural Colour Pigments in Estonia: Distribution, History, Production and Use (Supervisors: Hilkka Hiiop, Signe Vahur, Priit Penu)

Urmo Vaikla (2025), Junior Researcher, Spatial Adaptations in Post-Traumatic Periods (Supervisor: Hilkka Hiiop)

Karola Mursu (2024), Junior Researcher, Popularising Cultural Heritage: Methods and Opportunities (Supervisors: Hilkka Hiiop, Marju Himma)

Kati Männik (2024), Historic Colour Schemes of Wooden Buildings in Tartu: Historical Paint Types and the Application of Paint Research Results in Conservation (Supervisors: Maris Mändel, Epi Tohvri)

Triinu Väikmeri (2024), Wallpaper in Estonian Homes During the Interwar Period: Research and Preservation Methods (Supervisors: Linda Kaljundi, Kadri Kallaste)

Anu Soojärv (2023), The Monument Controversy in Estonia in 2022 as an Affective Response (Supervisors: Linda Kaljundi, Riin Alatalu)

Mirje Tammaru (2023), Cultural Heritage in Estonian National Tourism Policy: The Impact of Tourism on Heritage Sites (Supervisor: Riin Alatalu)

Tuuli Jõesaar (2023), Changes in Footwear Fashion in the Eastern Baltic During the Late Middle Ages: A Case Study of the Kalamaja Assemblage in Tallinn (Supervisors: Erki Russow, Marquita Volken)

Mariam Sagaradze (2023), Understanding Gaji: Gypsum-Earth Plasters in Georgian Wall Painting Technology and Their Conservation (Supervisors: Anneli Randla, Hilkka Hiiop; Co-supervisors: Lisa Shekede, Signe Vahur, Manana Kavsadze)

Aljona Gineiko (2022), Does Restoration Cost a Fortune? Construction Waste Treatment as a Component of Restoration Cost Estimation (Supervisors: Riin Alatalu, Mihkel Kiviste)

Triin Reidla (2021), Postmodern Private Houses of the 1980s–1990s: Architectural History and Heritage Valuation (Supervisors: Ingrid Ruudi, Maris Mändel)

Varje Õunapuu (2020), Technical Studies of Medieval Wall Paintings in Estonia and Their Plaster Supports (Supervisors: Hilkka Hiiop, Karol Bayer)

Triin Talk (2019), The Impacts of 21st-Century Mass Tourism on Tallinn Old Town and Possible Mitigation Measures (Supervisors: Kristina Jõekalda, Claudio Milano)

Kadri Kallaste (2017), Developments in Heritage Thinking in the 21st Century: The Role of Built Heritage in Urban Development, the Climate Crisis and Security (Supervisors: Anneli Randla, Kurmo Konsa)

Indrek Laos (2017), Lighthouses of the City of Light and Eiffel’s Legacy: Nineteenth-Century Metal Lighthouses on the Estonian Coast (Supervisor: Riin Alatalu)

Laura Ingerpuu (2015), Valorisation and Protection of Socialist Rural Architecture (1960–1990) in Estonia and Comparison with Other Baltic States: Administrative-Cultural Centres of Collective Farms (Supervisors: Anneli Randla, Epp Lankots)

Ave Matsin, External Doctoral Candidate, The Medieval Female Costume from the Siksälä Burial Site: Finds, Techniques and Reconstruction (Supervisors: Riina Rammo, Heiki Valk, Silvia Laul)

Tiina Tuulik, External Doctoral Candidate