Kvantum Institute is one of the four strategic focus institutes supporting high-quality research, coordinating multidisciplinary research activities and doctoral training. Kvantum’s science-based expertise meets global challenges in the focus areas Sustainable materials and systems and Changing climate and northern environment.
The university opened a call for new projects in October 2019. Forty-one research project applications were submitted to the call in January 2020. An independent international scientific evaluation panel, appointed by the Rector, evaluated the applications based on the criteria used by the Academy of Finland, as well as relevance to the call. On the basis of the recommendations of the evaluation panel the Rector approved 15 research projects to the Kvantum Institute for a period of 2021– 2024. These projects will be targeted for strategic support in the form of four-year doctoral student and postdoctoral researcher positions.
The projects appointed:
Principal Investigator | Project |
Aikio Anita | Arctic Ionospheric Response to Space Weather Events (ACROSS) |
Alahuhta Janne | Exploring geographical mismatch between supply and demand of ecosystem services using big and open source data across high latitudes (AccESS) |
Fabritius Tapio | Energy- and cost-efficient production of solar energy under arctic environmental conditions |
Fabritius Timo | CLEAN2STEEL - Towards carbon-neutral steelmaking through hydrogen- reduction and application of clean steels |
Hjort Jan | Hybrid modelling for improved permafrost risk assessments (HYPERISK) |
Huttula Marko | Electronic level understanding of transition metal based heterojunction catalysis (NANOCAT) |
Illikainen Mirja | Carbon-capturing magnesium cement (CARBO-CEM) |
Kivelä Sami | Global change impacts on northern animal communities: from mechanisms to ecosystem-level implications |
Kordas Krisztian | Robust 2D materials for sensors, photo and electrocatalysis (ROAR) |
Kvist Laura | Fall and rise of endangered species: Detection of genomic and population ecological signals of decreasing and increasing populations |
Silveri Matti | Continuously observed quantum matter with superconducting circuits |
Telkki Ville-Veikko | Advanced NMR for sustainability |
Ulich Thomas | Ionospheric Situational Awareness (ISaw) |
Vainio Seppo | Production and Development of Novel Natural Nano and Micro Biomaterials and Diagnostic Technologies for Catalytic, and Bio- and Circular Economics (BioEVEngine) |
Welker Jeffrey | Interacting processes in Arctic reindeer systems experiencing rapid climate change |
Last updated: 11.9.2020