Hamed Ahmadinia (Ph.D.) is a social science researcher with an academic background in information studies, information and knowledge management, and business and economics. He earned his Ph.D. from Åbo Akademi University in 2024, with a dissertation focused on immigrant health information behavior in Nordic welfare contexts. He also holds master’s degrees in Information & Knowledge Management (Finland) and Business Administration – Finance (Iran).

Ahmadinia has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference papers in journals such as Library & Information Science Research, Journal of Documentation, and International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care. He serves as a reviewer for several international journals, including Scientific Reports, BMC Public Health, and Information Research, and has worked as an academic editor for PLOS ONE and SAGE Open.

He has received over €134,000 in competitive research funding between 2020 and 2025 from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, KAKS (The Municipal Sector’s Research Foundation), Otto A. Malm Foundation, and Åbo Akademi University. This funding has supported both doctoral and postdoctoral research activities. His research interests include health and digital information behavior, science communication, media framing, and the societal effects of misinformation.

He currently works as a Senior Researcher at the University of Turku, contributing to national research projects on unreliable scientific information and the public impact of retracted studies.

My research focuses on science communication, media framing, and the societal impact of unreliable or retracted scientific information. At the University of Turku (2024–2027), I work in two projects led by Dr. Kim Holmberg: “Unreliable science: Unraveling the impact of mainstream media misrepresentation” (2025–2026) and “Societal impact of unreliable scientific information: the influence of retracted scientific articles on public perceptions, attitudes, and evidence-informed decision-making” (2024–2028). These projects examine how flawed science is represented in the media and its effects on public trust, perception, and policy relevance.

From 2019 to 2024, I was a doctoral candidate at Åbo Akademi University, where my dissertation focused on immigrant health information seeking and the cultural, social, and informational factors influencing well-being in Nordic welfare states. My work combined qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore information behavior in health contexts.

In 2023–2024, as a researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland, I contributed to the Mobile Futures project. I analyzed longitudinal ESS data (2002–2023) to investigate how generalized trust and digital information encounters shape European managers’ attitudes toward immigrants, using multilevel and fixed-effects modeling.

My broader research interests include retraction awareness, digital literacy, health information behavior, misinformation, and public engagement with science.

I currently do not hold teaching responsibilities at the University of Turku. However, I have extensive prior teaching experience in Finland and abroad. In spring 2025, I taught a 3 ECTS course titled Data Analytics & Statistics in Python at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. The course focused on statistical modeling, data analysis, and visualization using Python (Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn), and included hands-on coding assignments and supervision of mini-projects.

At Åbo Akademi University, I lectured in the Governance of Digitalization Master’s program between 2022 and 2024. I delivered two modules:

• Information Behaviour I (Autumn 2022): Applications of literacies (1 ECTS)
• Information Behaviour II (Spring 2022, 2023, 2024): Health information behaviour and theoretical frameworks (1 ECTS each year)
  My tasks included preparing and recording lectures, supervising learning diaries and group discussions, and evaluating assignments.

From 2011 to 2014, I worked as a lecturer at Azad University (Shahre Rey and North Tehran branches), teaching multiple Bachelor’s and Associate-level courses in finance, accounting, and business. Courses included:

• Finance 1 (3 ECTS)
• Finance 2 (3 ECTS)
• Investing in Stocks (2 ECTS)
• Financial Project (3 ECTS)
• Tax Accounting (multiple instances, 2 ECTS each)
• Application of Computer in Accounting – 2 (2 ECTS)
  Responsibilities included syllabus development, delivery of lectures, supervision of projects, and final exams.