Support foundations’ dissertation prizes awarded to 32 researchers
The support foundations awarded the doctoral researchers in an event organised in Tampere on 1 October. The event was arranged at Tampere City Hall now for the first time.
The City of Tampere’s Research Grant Committee also awarded three dissertation authors at the event. Those prizes were received by PhD Paula Rauhala, DSc Markus Hiekkamäki and PhD Julia Fadjukov.
Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University of Technology’s dissertation prizes
Each prize is €1,500.
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Ihtisham Ali, DSc, signal processing and machine learning
Methods, Models, and Datasets for Visual Servoing and Vehicle Localisation
Nachiket Ayir, DSc, electronics and communication engineering
RF Wireless Power and Data Transfer: Experiment-driven Analysis and Waveform Design
Laura Goncalves Ribeiro, DSc, signal processing and machine learning
Target Tracking Using Optical Markers for Remote Handling in ITER
Mike Koivisto, DSc, computing and electrical engineering
DoA and ToA Estimation, Device Positioning and Network Synchronization in 5G New Radio: Algorithms and Performance Analysis
Niloofar Okati, DSc, wireless communications
Modeling and Analysis of Massive Low Earth Orbit Communication Networks
Darwin Quezada Gaibor, DSc, dynamic wearable applications with privacy constraints
Cloud-based Indoor Positioning Platform for Context-adaptivity in GNSS-denied Scenarios
Salwa Saafi, DSc, dynamic wearable applications with privacy constraints
Access and Backhaul Solutions for Cellular-Enabled Industrial Wearables
Roosa-Maria Sallinen, DSc, computing and electrical engineering
Broadband Methods in Dynamic Analysis and Control of Battery Energy Storage Systems
Vladimir Iashin, DSc, computing and electrical engineering
Multi-modal Video Content Understanding
Faculty of Built Environment
Iida Kalakoski, DSc, architecture and community planning
Too Much to Handle: Architectural conservation in the widening scope of heritage
Martina Pressacco, DSc, structural mechanics
Numerical Study on the Weakening Effects of Thermal Pretreatments Application on Granite
Faculty of Management and Business
Matias Ståhle, DSc, industrial engineering
Integration of Customer-Facing Actors in Project Marketing
Laura Valtonen, DSc, industrial engineering
Rationality in Artificial Intelligence Decision-making
Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
Anne Skogberg, PhD, biomedical technology
Cellulose Nanofibers and their Assembly for Biomedical and Materials Sciences: Focus on Charged Cellulose Nanofibers
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
David Fassbender, DSc, mobile hydraulics and electrification
Towards Energy-Efficient Electrified Mobile Hydraulics: Considering Varying Application Conditions
Joe David, DSc, mechanical and production engineering
A Design Science Research Approach to Architecting and Developing Information Systems for Collaborative Manufacturing: A Case for Human-Robot Collaboration
João Vale, DSc, chemistry
Photochemical Reactions of Acylsilanes Towards the Construction of Carbon-Carbon Bonds
Kim Kuntze, DSc, chemistry
Strategies for Red-Light Photoswitching
Lauri Salmela, DSc, physics
Application of Machine Learning to Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Fibers
University of Tampere Foundation’s dissertation prizes
Each prize is €1,500.
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Maria Stratigi, DSc, computer science
Group Recommendations with Responsibility Constraints
Laura Eilola, PhD, language studies
Aikuisten luku- ja kirjoitustaitoon tukea tarvitsevien suomenopiskelijoiden vuorovaikutuskompetenssi ja sen kehittyminen luokkahuoneen ja arjen vuorovaikutustilanteissa (The language of the dissertation is Finnish.)
Faculty of Management and Business
Erkki-Jussi Nylén, Dsc (Admin.), administrative sciences, business studies and politics
Theorizing Ideological Steering: The journey of the circular economy
Faculty of Social Sciences
Anton Barchuk, PhD, epidemiology
Measuring the Burden of Cancer in Russia
Taru Lehtokunnas, DSocSci, sociology
Enacting a Circular Economy: A multi-sited ethnography on food waste practices in Finnish households, supermarkets and biogas plants
Anu Linnansaari, PhD, public health
Implementing Preventive Tobacco Policies: The role of contextual factors in policy implementation at school and national levels
Heikki Mikkonen, PhD, history
National Wealth and Income in the Land of the Poor: A Conceptual History of Economic Growth in Finland from the Late 19th Century until the Second World War
Tiina Mäkelä, PsyD, psychology
Signaled Night Awakening in Infancy: Associations with psychomotor development, executive functioning, social information processing, and socio-emotional behavior
Niina-Maria Nissinen, PhD, public health
Secondary Disabilities in Finnish Youth with Prenatal Substance Exposure: A longitudinal register-based cohort study on secondary education, financial difficulties and mood and neurotic disorders in youth with prenatal substance exposure
Visa Pitkänen, PhD, health economics
Competition and Public Procurements in Health Services
Faculty of Education and Culture
Suvi Skarp, DeD, educational science
Kiusaamisen kaikuja: Kerronnallinen pitkittäistutkimus elämästä koulukiusaamiskokemuksen jälkeen (The language of the dissertation is Finnish.)
Satia Zen, PhD, educational science
Dynamics of Teacher Identity Construction: Indonesian Teachers in Finnish International Teacher Programme
Antti Koskinen, DeD, educational science
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Digital Game-Based Learning with Adaptive Instructional Support
The Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University of Technology was established by Tampere Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its member companies in 1987. Its mission is to support research and other activities undertaken at Tampere University in the fields of engineering.The Fund fulfils its mission by giving out grants and scholarships to support research in technology-based disciplines at Tampere University. The Fund awards approximately one million euros on an annual basis to support research at the university.
The University of Tampere Foundation was established in 1973. The purpose of the foundation is to support education and research conducted at Tampere University in the fields of social sciences, health sciences, the arts and natural sciences as well as in social research, management and business, educational science, and the arts.
