Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology - News

The fertilisers may be harmful for organisms due to harmful organic substances, microplastics, and even genotoxic compounds. The harmful substances can accumulate in the field, plants, and soil organisms.

Isabell Rumrich, PhD, and Pasi Hirvonen, DSocSc, have been selected as the Prima Doctor and the Ultimus Doctor of the doctoral conferment ceremony to be held at the University of Eastern Finland in June.

The universities will decide on the reform of the scoring model for certificate-based admission in 2023. The new model will be introduced in 2026. The aim is also to increase collaboration related to entrance examinations among universities.

The general recommendation to use masks has been lifted at the University of Eastern Finland, with three exceptions following the instructions issued by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

MSc Blanca Sanz's thesis presents approaches designed to obtain detailed forest resource information from airborne laser scanning (ALS) data, aerial images, sample plots and a stem quality database.

The Best Master’s Thesis Award in Optics presented to Roman Calpe, Madona Mekhael and Afifa Rahman.

Associate Professor Kim Calders from Ghent University is making his scientific expertise available to the UNITE Flagship, but he’s also drawn to Joensuu by a long-standing friendship.

A total of 135 Ukrainian students applied for a separate non-degree right to study at UEF. The university is also offering Open University courses to citizens of Ukraine free of charge

​​​​​​​“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.

Battery researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed a self-standing mesoporous silicon (Si) film anode for lithium-ion batteries.