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​​​​​​​Sami Väänänen, PhD, a researcher at the UEF Department of Applied Physics and a medical physicist at the Kuopio University Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Centre has been granted Clinical Researcher funding by the Academy of Finland. Väänänen is the first medical physicist to receive this funding, which is usually granted to researchers in medicine or veterinary sciences.

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment announced yesterday 24 new Academy Research Fellow posts and 33 new Postdoctoral Researcher posts.

The University of Eastern Finland will use its strategic funding to support applicants to Academy Research Fellow positions in the autumn 2021 call through a number of measures.

Researchers in climate law at the University of Eastern Finland are participating in 4I TRACTION -project seeking to develop and assess transformative policies and an effective governance framework to implement them in accordance with the EU’s objective of climate-neutrality by 2050.

A collaborative project in the field of medical engineering between Academy Research Fellow Isaac Afara from the University of Eastern Finland and Professor Achim Kohler from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences has secured a new type of Finnish-Norwegian research funding from the Academy of Finland.

Scholars of climate law at the University of Eastern Finland are participating in NDC ASPECTS, an extensive, international project seeking to provide research-based knowledge to support the achievement of the goals of the Paris Agreement, and to promote increasingly ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

In 2020, the university achieved a good operational and financial result. The coronavirus pandemic and the emergency conditions had an impact on the university’s activities, but the key operational objectives were achieved well.

Sigrid Jusélius Foundation has granted a senior researcher post to Docent Šárka Lehtonen. Her lab develops human-based models to study the mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease.

The funding will be used to promote research activities in areas of significance to the university, which pertain to drug development and discovery, neurosciences, the forest-based bioeconomy, and the development of technologies that make use of photonics.