Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology - News

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.

Jusa Reijonen, MSc (Tech), studied in his doctoral thesis computational methods which can be applied in the clinical applications of neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

Metsäpalvelu Turunen, a Finnish forest sector company, benefits from the valuable expertise of international students involved in the UEF Trainee Programme in expanding the company’s business abroad.

Inverse problems refer to mathematical problems that cannot be solved in a straightforward manner; instead, solving them requires a broad range of methodological expertise, says Professor Aku Seppänen says.

Doctor of Education Anniina Kämäräinen, Doctor of Agriculture and Forestry Tuomas Yrttimaa, Doctor of Health Sciences Siiri-Liisi Kraav, and Doctor of Philosophy Niko Vartiainen have been recognised with the University of Eastern Finland’s Young Researcher Award 2021.