Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology - News

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​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.

Controlling aphids with parasitic wasps is more difficult in polluted environments.

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, in collaboration with colleagues from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, have published seven draft genomes for Nordic hare species.

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University have published in the journal Molecular Ecology a comprehensive study on the significance of species differences for the most central cell maintenance mechanisms.

MSc Himat Shah developed three language-independent and one language-dependent method to extract keywords from webpages.

In MSc Khai Pham Dinh's study, three-dimensional TiO2 inverse opal structures are fabricated and used as a base material for further modifications and investigations for a better photocatalytic performance and wider the application into different fields.

A new technique to improve the coating of nanoparticles used in cancer therapy may enhance tumour targeting, a new study carried out in collaboration between the University of Eastern Finland and Anhui Medical University in China concludes.