Department of Technical Physics - News

A new project launched at the university focuses on the teaching of matrix and linear algebra as a single entity and produces content that is suitable for the needs of different academic subjects as extensively as possible.

3AWater, a technology start-up from Kuopio, Finland, commercializes a solution for fast and easy analytics of metal contents of waters.

​​​​​​​Sami Väänänen, PhD, a researcher at the UEF Department of Applied Physics and a medical physicist at the Kuopio University Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Centre has been granted Clinical Researcher funding by the Academy of Finland. Väänänen is the first medical physicist to receive this funding, which is usually granted to researchers in medicine or veterinary sciences.

“Photonics is about light: we create, modify, observe and move light from one place to another,” Head of the Institute of Photonics, Professor Jyrki Saarinen says.

The University of Eastern Finland’s research in atmospheric science, pharmacy, and tourism was ranked in the top 76–100 worldwide.

A two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship has brought Eng Kuan Moo from Canada to the Biophysics of Bone and Cartilage research group at UEF.

A collaborative project in the field of medical engineering between Academy Research Fellow Isaac Afara from the University of Eastern Finland and Professor Achim Kohler from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences has secured a new type of Finnish-Norwegian research funding from the Academy of Finland.

The joint study by the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University analyses car emissions in a real driving situation.

The aim of MSc  Janne Koivukoski's dissertation was to explore how the different radiation events, especially the Chernobyl accident, have affected the development of the radiation monitoring system while using technological advancements. Special focus was put on the measuring and data handling technology used and on the development of the monitoring station network.

The University of Eastern Finland has received EU funding to recruit 14 doctoral students into a four-year multidisciplinary Neuro-Innovation PhD programme, which will be implemented on the Kuopio campus.