The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, and Scientific Council for Culture and Society have granted a total of 10.5 million euros of funding for 9 new Academy Research Fellows and to 11 new Academy Projects at the University of Eastern Finland.
The Scientific Councils announced their funding decisions on 13 June 2024. The funding for Academy Research Fellows and Academy Projects is granted for a four-year period.
Academy Research Fellows in Culture and Society
- Noora Heiskanen: The writing teacher – Institutional ethnography on teachers' work with documents in the era of educational reforms (RESISTANCE), 630000 euros.
- Kaisa Huhta: The foundations of a legal discipline: Developing the general doctrine of energy law, 557,635 e.
- Jin Kang: Gender Performance-Confidence Paradox, 549154 e.
- Sonsoles López Pernas: Optimizing Clinical Reasoning in Time-Critical Scenarios: A data-driven multimodal approach (CRETIC), 606199 e.
- Sirja-Leena Penttinen: Between a rock and hard place in the battery arms race: towards a global governance framework supporting the resilience and sustainability of the battery value chain in the realisation of the green energy transition, 633539 e.
- Tiina Sihto: Young carers in Finland: Life course transitions, family care chains and support for caring (YCaFin), 650815 e.
- Suvi Virtanen: The effects of social policies in reducing mental health problems and criminality in Nordic countries: an early life perspective, 591340 e.
Academy Projects in Culture and Society
- Mikko Laitinen: Weak-tie hypothesis in complex digital networks (COMET), 552810 e.
- Aija Lulle: Menopausing: Exploring diversity, awareness and activism, 553650 e.
- Kati Tervo-Niemelä: Religion, meaning and masculinities: Religion in the lives of men in Finland, 500090 e.
- Pasi Tuunainen: A Challenging Arctic Battlefield: History and Legacy of the Northernmost Front of the Second World War, 663680 e.
- Heikki Uimonen: SOMECO – Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening, 458333 e.
- Tarja Välimäki: Promoting Healthy Lifestyle for Spousal Family Caregivers: Family FINGER, 344490 e.
Academy Research Fellows in Natural Sciences and Engineering
- Ali Abdollahzadeh: Synthetic brain tissue microstructure with realistic micro- and macro-properties to characterize diffusion MRI, 552388 e.
- Samu Kainulainen: A Whole-Body Sleep Architecture Model to Redefine Sleep Stages, 729090 e.
Academy Projects in Natural Sciences and Engineering
- Jarkko Akkanen: NOMAD: Nano-/Microplastic Mobility and Contaminant Co-Transport in Groundwater – A Multiscale Study with Finnish Perspective, 464158 e.
- Kalle Kärhä: Innovative methods for measuring and modelling the dynamic forest road quality, 329697 e.
- Timo Leppänen: Finnish Sleep Cohort: 10-year follow-up of initially healthy and sleep apnea patients to determine the time of onset in the past and predict the progression of the disease in the future, 455999 e.
- Anne-Mari Mustonen: Role of calcified cartilage and subchondral bone in early osteoarthritis: Characterizing alterations that precede and influence cartilage degeneration, 248753 e.
- Matthieu Roussey: Digital single molecule detection with plasmonic-enhanced up-conversion (DISIMO), 391670 e.
Source: Research Council of Finland selects new Academy Research Fellows and Academy Projects in natural sciences and engineering, New Academy Research Fellows and Academy Projects in social sciences and humanities granted funding by Research Council of Finland
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