Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology - News

The topic of MSc Sughra Mohamed's doctoral research is the controlling, confinement, and tailoring of light in nanostructures, particularly in plasmonic and photonic crystal systems.

The Foundations' Post Doc Pool awarded some 1.27 million euro to 29 postdoctoral scholars on 30 November 2022.

In early November, the Institute of Photonics at the University of Eastern Finland changed its name to the Center for Photonics Sciences.

Professor Jyrki Saarinen and Executive Director Juha Purmonen have been elected into the Board of Stakeholders of Photonics21.

Ali Mohammadi, MSc, evaluated structural, compositional, and functional effects of blunt and sharp cartilage damages on the joint using various in vivo and in vitro.

MSc Christina Brester's doctoral dissertation is about epidemiological predictive modeling, the goal of which is to enhance risk stratification by building increasingly more accurate models.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Director of North Savo Wellbeing Services County Marko Korhonen, Doctor of Social Sciences, has been selected as the Alumnus of the Year of the University of Eastern Finland.

In MSc Mohammadhossein Ebrahimi's doctoral thesis, the location-specific mechanical material properties of human knee joint cartilage as well as tissue composition and structure are established for this first time.

MSc Sareh Yaripour's thesis investigates the impacts of environmental variables such as rearing environment and pollutants on fish reproduction and offspring traits through phenotypic and transgenerational plasticity.

CorFlux, which is based on cardiac surgery research and mathematical modelling, will step into the limelight in the final of the Y Science competition.