New academy research fellows and academy projects in natural sciences and engineering at the University of Oulu

The Research Council of Finland's (RCF) Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering has made decisions on new funding for Academy Research Fellows, and Academy Projects. The funding period in the Academy Research Fellowship and Academy Project funding schemes is four years.

New Academy Research Fellowships

The RCF’s Academy Research Fellowship funding is intended for early-career researchers on a fast career track who have formed international networks and who are conducting scientifically high-quality and high-impact research that contributes to scientific renewal.

Renata Latypova: Confirmation, Quantification, and Implications of Vacancies in Metals Due to Presence of Hydrogen, 648 004 €

Xiaoting Wu: Towards Cardiometabolic Intelligence—Decoding Heart Dynamics for AI-Augmented Diabetes Monitoring and Human Sustainable Wellbeing, 691 899 €

Pauli Väisänen: Space climate of cosmic ray anisotropies, 700 000 €

Hannah Bailey: Isotopic Constraints on Ice sheet Cryohydrology, Latent energy, and mass Evolution, 699 317 €

New Academy Projects

The aim of the RCF’s Academy Project Funding is to promote the regeneration and broad range of Finnish science and to improve the quality and scientific and other impact of research.

Transplanting Authentic Facial Signals with Coarse-to-Fine Fidelity, 600 000 €, principal investigator Guoying Zhao

Enhanced security of next generation wireless networks with autonomous agentic AI based design, 581 892 €, principal investigator Mika Ylianttila

Digital Twinning Methods for Illuminating Insights in Classical Archaeology, 599 635 €, principal investigator Ella Peltonen

Advanced Gradient-Printed Designs to Improve the Performance of Next-Generation Solid-State Batteries, 596 206 €, principal investigator Rafal Sliz

Cosmology from the Euclid mission, 348 276 €, principal investigator Aku Venhola

Advanced 2D Structures from Bionanoelectrolytes via Interfacial Complexation: Future Sustainable and Responsive Materials for Smart Packaging and Green Electronics, 598 431 €, principal investigator Henrikki Liimatainen

Navigating Tensions in the Pursuit Toward Evidence-Informing EU AI Act Regulatory Sandboxes, 579 529 €, principal investigator Arto Lanamäki

Exploring Non-noble Metal Electrocatalysts for Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction, 350 000 €, principal investigator Ekta Rani

Habitability of polar areas during weakening magnetic shield era, 599 995 €, principal investigator Eija Tanskanen

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Created 10.6.2026 | Updated 10.6.2026