Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences - News

The results of MSc Paula Thitz's doctoral thesis may be applied, for example, in the development of pesticides with less unwanted side effects, or in the selection of better silver birch lines for breeding purposes.

M.Sc. Teemu Rönkkö studied the relationships between particle composition and toxicological effects of inhalable urban ambient air particulate matter collected in Nanjing, China.

The primary objective of this thesis was to evaluate the potential application of a novel heat exchanger system to fine particle reduction in small-scale wood combustion appliances.

In his doctoral thesis, Muhammad Waseem Khan, M.Sc., studied the possible adverse health effects of human exposure to low frequency magnetic fields.

MSc Muhammad Usman Rasheed's thesis assesses the effects of warming, nitrogen addition, ozone and shoot herbivory on Scots pine seedlings based on two field experiments

The University of Eastern Finland secured a total of 3.9 million euros of research funding for five consortia.

Several UEF researchers representing the fields of medicine and molecular medicine were ranked in world's top 10,000 scientists for career-long impact. Ranked in the top 100 in their own field were particularly researchers representing forest sciences.