Janika Raun

Janika Raun is a Tourism Geography Researcher at the University of Tartu's Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Geography. Her work focuses on human mobility patterns, utilizing big data such as mobile positioning and electricity consumption to analyze tourism destinations and multi-local living behaviors. She holds a PhD from the University of Tartu (2020) and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Helsinki on second home mobility. Her research emphasizes making privately held mobility data accessible for social good and official statistics. Key areas include tourism destination delineation, cross-border population dynamics, and sustainable mobility solutions.

Her methodological expertise spans spatial interpolation, data fusion techniques, and the application of innovative tools for cultural tourism impact assessment. She actively publishes in interdisciplinary journals, addressing challenges in tourism statistics and data-driven policy solutions. Current projects explore the integration of diverse datasets to understand multi-local lifestyles and their environmental impacts.