Department of Technical Physics - News

The festive atmosphere of the doctoral conferment ceremony held in Kuopio last June can now be revisited via a commemorative book, and via a video of the entire ceremonial conferment of degrees.

The Foundations' Post Doc Pool awarded some 1.27 million euro to 29 postdoctoral scholars on 30 November 2022.

Ali Mohammadi, MSc, evaluated structural, compositional, and functional effects of blunt and sharp cartilage damages on the joint using various in vivo and in vitro.

MSc Christina Brester's doctoral dissertation is about epidemiological predictive modeling, the goal of which is to enhance risk stratification by building increasingly more accurate models.

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.

CorFlux, which is based on cardiac surgery research and mathematical modelling, will step into the limelight in the final of the Y Science competition.

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.

Published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, an international study shows that the number of atmospheric aerosol particles measured at observation sites across Europe has, on average, declined since the beginning of the 2000s.

A new study from Finland, conducted by the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University, measured particulate emissions from passenger car preheating with an auxiliary heater in sub-zero conditions.

Teollisuusneuvos Heikki Väänänen Fund awards grants for wood-related scientific research at the University of Eastern Finland.