Jaakko Nousiainen (20 December 1931 – 24 March 2022) was a Finnish academic who was a professor of political science,[1] and has served as a chancellor of the University of Turku.
Between 1961 and 1963 he served as associate professor of social sciences at the University of Education of Jyväskylä.
Nousiainen has been a key player in the development of the so-called Turku School of Political Studies.
[3] In Nousiainen's professorship at the Department of Political Science, he was vigorously taking care of the training of new generation of researchers.
Under his guidance as a doctoral student at the University of Turku, Pekka Väänänen (1971), Voitto Helander (1971), Hannu Nurmi (1974), Pertti Laulajainen (1979), Esko Antola (1980), Heikki Paloheimo (1981), Jyrki Käkönen (1985), Matti Wiberg (1988) and Eero Murto (1994).