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Tuuli Jylhä serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Built Environment at Aalto University, Finland. Her academic work focuses on optimizing facility management and corporate real estate practices through lean principles and circular economy frameworks, with particular emphasis on workplace design impacts on human wellbeing and sustainable built environment solutions. She maintains active research collaborations across European institutions and contributes to major industry symposia including the EuroFM Research Symposium.
Her research spans facility management innovation, corporate real estate strategy, workplace design science, lean methodology application, circular economy implementation in construction, and employee wellbeing optimization. Current investigations examine adaptive reuse of buildings, transformation of outsourcing models, startup ecosystem support through facilities, and interior design strategies for health promotion. Her methodology combines empirical case studies, literature reviews, and cross-sectoral analyses to bridge theoretical frameworks with practical facility management applications.
Analysis of her recent publications (2022-2025) reveals three dominant research trajectories: circular building adaptability frameworks (35% of output), workplace wellbeing optimization (30%), and corporate real estate management transformation (25%). Her work increasingly integrates circular economy principles with lean management approaches while expanding into educational facility safety and university-startup ecosystem interfaces. The Netherlands and Finland serve as primary case study contexts with growing international comparative research.
Scientific recognition includes:
- Highly Commended Paper award (2014) from Facilities journal for 'Learning from lean management – going beyond input-output thinking' (2013)
Dr. Jylhä actively supervises master's students and early-career researchers through Aalto University's Department of Built Environment, with recent projects examining modular facility solutions and workplace noise impacts. Her grant portfolio includes Finnish Strategic Research Council funding for circular economy initiatives and European Commission Horizon 2020 collaborations focused on sustainable facility management.
She contributes to Aalto's Real Estate Economics research group and participates in the EuroFM network, where she serves on symposium program committees. Current projects investigate the role of facility management in university startup ecosystems and the transformation of outsourcing practices in corporate real estate, with fieldwork conducted across Nordic and Western European institutional contexts.
