Rate My Professor Riikka Korte

Riikka Korte is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis at Aalto University, holding the title of Professor (Associate Professor) in Analysis. She serves as Vice Head in charge of teaching within the department. Korte obtained her Master's degree in Engineering and Technology from Helsinki University of Technology in 2004, a Licentiate degree in 2006, and a Doctoral degree (D.Sc. Tech.) in 2008 from the same institution. She joined Aalto University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis in 2015 and has been a member of the organizational unit since 2016. Her research focuses on geometric analysis, stochastics, partial differential equations, and their interactions and applications, particularly in metric measure spaces. As principal investigator, she leads projects including "Geometric analysis, stochastics and partial differential equations, interactions and applications" (2024–2028, Research Council of Finland Academy Project) and "Parabolic flows with variational methods" (2017–2021, Academy of Finland funding).

Korte has published extensively in leading mathematical journals, contributing to areas such as Sobolev inequalities, Poincaré inequalities, functions of bounded variation, and regularity problems in metric spaces. Notable publications include "Lebesgue points and capacities via the boxing inequality in metric spaces" (2008, Indiana University Mathematics Journal, 83 citations), "The higher integrability of weak solutions of porous medium systems" (2019, Advances in Nonlinear Analysis, 54 citations), "Solving a Dirichlet problem on unbounded domains via a conformal transformation" (2024, Mathematische Annalen), "Sharp Hölder regularity of weak solutions of the Neumann problem and applications to nonlocal PDE in metric measure spaces" (2026, Journal of Differential Equations), and "Neumann problems for p-harmonic functions, and induced nonlocal operators in metric measure spaces" (2025, American Journal of Mathematics). She received the McKinsey Prize 2004 from McKinsey & Company, Finland, awarded in 2005. Korte has participated in academic service as a conference speaker, opponent in doctoral defenses, and organizer in mathematical events.