Dr Tanja Tyvimaa

Biography

Dr Tanja Tyvimaa is Senior Lecturer at the School of Economics and Finance. She joined QUT as a lecturer in Property Economics 2015. Prior to joining QUT, Dr Tyvimaa was Post-Doctoral Researcher at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. She has been a Visiting Post-Doctoral Scholar at the University of Georgia, USA (2012-2015), and a Visiting Research Scholar at Georgia State University, USA (2009-2010). Dr Tyvimaa has over ten years’ experience in academic research and teaching in property economics and development.

Before her PhD studies, Dr Tyvimaa worked as a Project Manager in the residential building and real estate development projects having a total responsibility of managing design processes, project programming, floor planning coordination and budgeting. She has almost eight years’ experience working in the property and urban development.

The areas of her research interest are apartment prices and property values, residents’ preferences and supply/demand in property market, and demographic/population related issues. Dr Tyvimaa is interested in residential and mixed-use urban properties, within a special expertise of seniors housing (retirement communities).During her years in academia, Dr Tyvimaa has been successful getting research grants and funding from several academic funding organisations. Dr Tyvimaa serves as secretary in the International Real Estate Society (IRES).

Dr Tyvimaa is a Program Leader at the Building 4.0 CRC https://building4pointzero.org/

Dr Tyvimaa holds following qualifications:

• Doctor of Science (PhD in technology), Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 2011
• Master of Science (construction economics and management), Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 2005
• Bachelor of Science (construction engineering, structural design), Tampere University of Applied Science, Finland, 2000
• Bachelor of Architecture, Vaasa Polytechnic, Finland, 1997