Academy project funding was granted altogether 8.8 million euros for 21 generally 4-year research projects. In addition, 2.2 and 2.7 million euros were granted to six 5-year Academy Research Fellows and nine 3-year Postdoctoral researchers, respectively.
Academy project funding was granted among others to research projects modelling permafrost thaw and remobilisation sites of Arctic soil organic carbon under climate change, exploring the importance and interactive effects of intensified land use on freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and inspecting the background and the conditions of emergence, development and social and scientific significance of birth cohort studies. Funding was granted also for brain imaging research, and research considering the vulnerabilities of biometric authentication technologies to spoofing attacks and developing effective and innovative solutions for circumventing them.
Academy Research Fellows´ research topics include among others antipsychotics medicine, utilization of carbon nanotubes in neural tissue engineering, and evolutionary consequences of urbanisation.
Postodoctoral researchers´ topics include among others research on the politics of knowledge production, the production of global citizenship and the encountering of difference, geopolymer technology in disinfection and treatment of water and wastewater, and co-design processes of urban AI design in smart cities.
Academy projects starting 1 September 2018
Mehdi Bennis: Towards massive, low-latency and proactive wireless networks
Abdenour Hadid: Visual Multi-Modal Biometrics Under Spoofing Attacks
Heini Hakosalo: Lives over time: Birth cohort studies as a form of scientific knowledge-production
Aulikki Herneoja: Spatial Solutions for Environmental Satisfaction, Well-being and Work Engagement in Activity-based Offices. Space, lighting and acoustics supporting flexible working and workspace choice
Reetta Hinttala: Role of NHLRC2 in Developing Central Nervous System
Jan Hjort: Spatial ensemble prediction of permafrost thaw, soil carbon and ground-ice in the Arctic
Jari Juuti: Electromechanical Biomaterial based Transducers
Alexander Kastaniotis: Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Synthesis in Mitochondrial Biogenesis, Cellular Function and Neurodegenerative Disease
Juha Kostamovaara: Single photon detection based 2D/3D ranging in high background illumination conditions
Petri Kursula: GDAP1 - an enigmatic enzyme linked to inherited peripheral neuropathy
Timo Muotka: Stream biodiversity change: disentangling the effects of multiple anthropogenic drivers on riverine ecosystems
Marko Mutanen: Advancing the genomic revolution of species delimitation
Teemu Myllylä: Advanced sensing of water during brain tumor radiotherapy and in neuro-oncologic multimodal MRI
Anne Remes: Identification of pathogenic mechanisms and new biomarker and druggable candidates in frontotemporal dementia using patient-derived skin fibroblasts and neurons
Lloyd Ruddock: Structural studies on basement membrane proteins
Juha Tuunainen: Societally Engaged University: Observing Hybridity in University Organization
Seppo Vainio: Wnt-mediated Kidney Tubule Induction – the Role of Secreted Extracellular Vesicles as Putative Morphogens
Heikki Vanhamäki: Ionospheric currents during geomagnetic storms and substorms
Jeffrey Welker: High-resolution Arctic water isotope (d18O & d2H) cycles record and reveal sea ice-atmosphere-hydrologic (SIAH) interactions
Robert Winqvist: Hereditary breast cancer predisposition: factors, cellular mechanisms and disease modeling
Guoying Zhao: Micro-gesture analysis with machine learning for hidden emotion understanding
Academy Research Fellows 1 September 2018 - 31 August 2023
Erika Jääskeläinen: Beneficial and harmful effects of antipsychotics in psychoses and off-label use
Sami Kivelä: Evolutionary consequences of urbanization
Gabriela Lorite Yrjänä: Injectable scaffold based on carbon nanotube alignment via magnetic field for guided neural tissue engineering
Matti Silveri: Many-body localization and dissipation in arrays of superconducting transmon devices
Denzil Teixeira Ferreira: SENSATE: Entropy-AWARE Instrumentation for Just-In-Time Anomalous Human Behaviour Interventions
Meng Wu: Rigid properties of fractal sets and measures, and applications
Academy of Finland Postdoctoral researchers 1.9.2018 - 31.8.2021
Pertti Ala-aho: Where does water go when snow melts? New spatio-temporal resolution in stable water isotopes measurements to inform cold climate hydrological modelling
Satu Inkinen: X-ray Multi-energy Musculoskeletal Imaging Techniques Using Spectral Photon Counting Detectors
Tero Luukkonen: Functional geopolymers and peracids in disinfection and advanced oxidation of water and wastewater
Anna Luusua: Experiencing Artificial Intelligence in the Smart City: Co-creating applications for urban life
Yu Fu Hung: Structural and functional studies on the Plasmodium glideosome complex
Piia Näykki: Emotions in collaborative learning – Observing and supporting emotion regulation in teacher education context
Johanna Sitomaniemi-San: Dividing the World through Wonder: How We Became Curious
Petr Stepanek: Nuclear magneto-optic spectroscopy
Evgenii Zherebtsov: Flexible Dynamic Light Scattering Blood Perfusion Matrix Sensor
More information on research projects on the Academy of Finland web site
Last updated: 20.6.2018