Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology - News

The Saimaa ringed seal is not the only seal species suffering from global warming, as the habitat of seals living in the Arctic is shrinking as we speak.

Freshwater wetlands, floodplains and peatlands have been degraded for several centuries across Europe and continue to be degraded, with the main drivers being large-scale drainage for agriculture, forestry, mining of peat and other materials.

The HUMEA Laboratory is an R&D environment for motion and biosignal analysis. Many research-driven corporate spin-offs have emerged from the laboratory.

This year’s Best Master’s Thesis Award in Optics at the University of Eastern Finland was presented to Duc Huynh, Elvis Pillinen and Miika Suhonen.

The methods developed in the PhD study serve as the basis for further development of near real-time brain tissue classification systems.

With Finland's climate getting warmer in the future, what can we expect in terms of pollen? In their search for answers to this question, researchers are looking not only at the present and the future, but also into the past.

The Young Researcher Awards were presented to Pauliina Lukinmaa, Atte Eskelinen, Juan Miguel Valverde Martínez and Rosemary Mwanza.

Professor of Chemical Ecology James Blande and his research group at the University of Eastern Finland focus on plant stress responses and plant-to-plant interactions.

The research group at the University of Eastern Finland has been participating in Minecraft-based AI competitions since 2019.

UEF is the first Finnish higher education institution to join the UNAI iunitiative.