Reijo Käkelä

Reijo Käkelä is a Senior University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, and leads the HiLIPID lipidomics service laboratory. His research integrates lipidomics and fatty acid analysis to explore cellular functions, human disease pathogenesis, aquatic food webs, and environmental adaptation. He teaches courses in physiology, lipidomics, and ecotoxicology, and supervises MSc and PhD students.

• Research Focus: Lipid metabolism, fatty acid signaling, mass spectrometry-based lipidomics, environmental toxicology, neurodegeneration

Key Projects include lipid metabolism in wintering insects, lipidomics of therapeutic cells, and eicosanoid pathways in stem cells. His scientific infrastructure contributions involve the Helsinki University Lipidomics Unit. Collaborations span ecology, biomedicine, and freshwater fish communities.