Support foundations award 23 doctoral dissertation authors
On the opening day of the new academic year, Tampere University Foundation and the Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University of Technology awarded a total of 23 dissertation authors.
The City of Tampere’s Research Grant Committee also conferred prizes to three dissertation authors. The recipients are Doctor of Philosophy Elise Kraatila, Doctor of Science (Technology) Markus Lahikainen and Doctor of Science (Technology) Kimmo Kartasalo.
Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University of Technology’s dissertation awards
The €1.500 prize was awarded for the following dissertations.
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, ENS
- Hoy-My Phung, Doctor of Science (Technology), physics:
Semiconductor membrane external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (MECSELs): Power scaling, thermal management, and wavelength extension
- Santeri Lampinen, Doctor of Science (Technology), automation and systems engineering:
Increasing the Automation Level of Hydraulic Secondary Breaker Systems. An End-to-End Concept
- Jarkko Kiilakoski, Doctor of Science (Technology), materials science and engineering:
Damage Tolerance of Thermally Sprayed Oxide Coatings
- Tommi Varis, Doctor of Science (Technology), materials science and engineering:
Approaches for Linking the High Kinetic Thermal Spray Process, Residual Stresses and Coating Performance by Utilizing In-situ Monitoring
- Jose Villa Escusol, Doctor of Science (Technology), mechanical and industrial engineering:
A Guidance, Navigation, and Control Architecture for a Co-operative Autonomous Offshore System
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, ICT
- Henrik Alenius, Doctor of Science (Technology) in the field of electrical engineering, power electronics:
Broadband Methods for Stability Analysis of Multi-Parallel Grid-Connected Converters
- Toni Heittola, Doctor of Science (Technology), in the field of signal processing:
Computational Audio Content Analysis in Everyday Environments
- Martin Stusek, Doctor of Science (Technology) in the field of communications engineering:
Research on Reliable Low-Power Wide-Area Communications Utilizing Multi-RAT LPWAN Technologies for IoT Applications
- Hesam Zolfaghari, Doctor of Science (Technology) in the field of electronics:
Flexible Low-Area Hardware Architectures for Packet Processing in Software-Defined Networks
The University of Tampere Foundation’s dissertation prizes
The dissertation prizes of €1.500 were conferred to the following people:
Faculty of Social Sciences, SOC
- Malin Fransberg, Doctor of Social Sciences in the field of sociology:
Helsinki Graffiti Subculture: Meanings of Control and Gender in the Aftermath of Zero Tolerance
- Erika Pihl, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of literary studies:
Mirrored Voices: The Rhetoric of Experientality in Medieval Literature
- Ilari Taskinen, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of history:
Social Lives in Letters: Finnish soldiers' epistolary relationships, intimate practices, and emotionality in World War II
- Risto Turunen, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of history:
Shades of Red: Evolution of the Political Language of Finnish Socialism from the Nineteenth Century until the Civil War of 1918
- Erna Törmälehto, Doctor of Social Sciences in the field of social work:
Vanhemmat ja opettajat lasten tunnetilojen tunnistajina
Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, MET
- Anni Honkimaa, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of virology:
Molecular Markers and Drug Treatment for Persistent Enterovirus Infection in Pancreatic Cell Lines
- Saara Laukkanen, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of paediatrics:
Novel Targeted Therapies and Prognostic Markers for T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, ICT
- Anna Rantasila, Doctor of Social Sciences in the field of media studies:
Circulating Emotions, Sticky Feelings: Affective dynamics of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in a hybrid media environment
- Anu Viljanmaa, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of translation studies (German):
Professionelle Zuhörkompetenz und Zuhörfilter beim Dialogdolmetschen
- Olli Kuparinen, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Finnish language studies:
Muutoksen mekanismit: Kolmen aikapisteen reaaliaikatutkimus Helsingin puhekielestä
- Kaj Syrjänen, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Finnish language studies:
Quantitative Language Evolution: Case Studies in Finnish Dialects and Uralic Languages
- Mika Perkiömäki, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Russian language and culture:
Imagined Riverography of Late Twentieth-Century Russian Prose
- Mary Nurminen, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of translation studies:
Investigating the Influence of Context in the Use and Reception of Raw Machine Translation
- Kati Alha, Doctor of Philosophy in the field of information studies and interactive media:
The Rise of Free-to-Play: How the Revenue Model Changed Games and Playing
