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“Instead of planning for growth, regions with a dwindling population should learn to adapt to shrinkage,” says Teemu Makkonen, UEF’s newly appointed Professor of Regional Research and Economic Geography.
Ulla-Mari Kinnunen’s career path has led her from nurse to professor with profound understanding of knowledge management in social welfare and health care.
Hanna Lappalainen has been appointed as Professor of Finnish Language, especially spoken language variation.
As a young boy, Juho Pesonen would show professors of tourism around his hometown, Savonlinna. This August, he, too, joined the ranks of tourism professors at the University of Eastern Finland.
In the future, a growing number of neurodegenerative diseases could ideally be treated with the same drug, says Timo Myöhänen, the University of Eastern Finland’s newly appointed Professor of Pharmacology and Drug Development.
Marja Laasonen has been appointed as Professor of Logopedics as of 1 June.
Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen’s work at the University of Eastern Finland Law School is pioneering: no similar professorship exists in Finland nor abroad.
Societal policy measures and individual choices both play a role in moving towards sustainable well-being, Professor Arto O. Salonen says.
“The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it many important lessons and experiences from crisis management and the revolution of work,” says Professor of Management Pia Heilmann.
Professor Lasse Peltonen has seen the causes and consequences of environmental conflicts both as a researcher and as a mediator. The roles are different, but both are needed to understand conflicts and to find solutions to them.