(né Isto Vatanen)
Consultancy, education and research in information, knowledge and communication process management, digital and social media and visual design.

Dr. Isto Huvila is working as a post-doc research fellow (forskarassistent) at the department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Science and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University in Sweden, is an adjunct researcher at the Information Studies department at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, and an independent consultant. His primary areas of research include information work, information management, knowledge organisation, cultural heritage information, participation in archives and documents management and library 2.0 related issues such as information service, information literacy and information in virtual worlds. Huvila has published broadly on the topics ranging from information work management, archaeological information management, virtual reality information issues to the museum informatics and ancient history and archaeology. He received a MA degree in cultural history at the University of Turku in 2002 and a PhD degree in information studies at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) in 2006.