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Jaakko Pohjoismäki is an expert in cellular and molecular biology as well as in genetics, and he employs methods familiar from biomedicine to study biodiversity phenomena.
The recruitment of the university’s first UEF Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemistry is a new opening to boost international collaboration and strategic research.
“I’m optimistic about how political actors and the business community already have promoted green technology,” Professor of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Harri Kokkola says.
According to Professor of Environmental Law Seita Romppanen, the sustainability transition poses challenges to law both as a system and as an academic discipline.
For the environment, building something new is almost always the worst solution, Henrik Heräjärvi, Professor of Wood Products Technology, says.
The focus of Professor Marjut Roponen’s research has always been on inhaled exposures and, in particular, on their impact on children’s health. Studies concerning exposures during pregnancy are still rather limited.
Appointed as Professor of Forest Planning at the University of Eastern Finland this November, Jari Vauhkonen says that collaboration between forest owners should be incentivised.
“Combustion processes generate air pollution that has an impact on human health and the environment everywhere around the world,” Professor in Emissions of Combustion Processes Olli Sippula says.
“Ecosystem modelling is a highly topical field of science. Modern forest management requires that several forest ecology issues be considered at once,” Professor Annamari (Ari) Laurén says.
Following in the footsteps of his father, Professor of Wood Materials Science and Technology Antti Haapala entered the wood processing sector at the age of 16, when he started working in a UPM paper mill in Kajaani.