Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology - News

Nicholas Downes of the A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences and Khai Pham Dinh of the Department of Chemistry secured a Finnish Foundations' Post Doc Pool grant.

The university’s operational and financial result for 2022 was good. The result from ordinary activities was as planned, and the university’s income and expenses were in balance.

UEF, together with Teollisuusneuvos Heikki Väänänen Fund, will organise the 8th Karelia Symposium under the theme “Food from Wood” in Joensuu on 25 April 2023.

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.