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The Tampere Institute for Advanced Study welcomes fifteen new Research Fellows

Published on 20.9.2024
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The Tampere Institute for Advanced Study welcomed fifteen new Fellows in the annual opening event of its academic year held on 11 September 2024. In addition to the general activities organized by the research institute, their autumn programme includes individual meetings with the director and the launch of a mentoring programme.Photo: Jonne Renvall
Tampere Institute for Advanced Study granted fifteen new Research Fellowships starting at the beginning of September.

In the Call for Applications in spring 2024, nine two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and six three-year Senior Research Fellowships were open in Tampere University’s fields of research to new candidates. The process resulted in a total of 367 submitted applications. After the candidate pre-selection conducted by a selection committee consisting of the university’s professors in the fields of technology, health, and society, seventy-one shortlisted applications were ranked by international external evaluators in the same fields. 

“Many of the international experts considered the overall standard of the applications they assessed to be high, which reflects the large number of applications received and the opportunity provided by the pre-selection process to submit only very high-quality applications for external evaluation," says Juha Teperi, the Director of the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study. 

“Some of the now recruited Fellows have come to Tampere only recently, some have worked at our university already for a longer time. What they all share is the remarkable potential to take their research to the next level”, Teperi adds. 

The President of Tampere University appointed fifteen Research Fellows based on the proposal of the selection committee in May. In accordance with the proposal, the President also placed 24 researchers on a reserve list. 

The following researchers started their Research Fellowships at the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study on 1 September 2024: 

Postdoctoral Research Fellows 2024-2026

Al Dahdouh, Tahani: Resilience Between Siege and Genocide: Gaza's University Teachers Speak

Díaz-Guerra Aparicio, David: Geometric General Deep-Learning Models for Spatial Audio

Hamal Mishra, Binisha: Uncovering Molecular Networks Linking Cardiovascular Disease and Its Comorbidities Using Multiomics and System Biology-based Machine Learning Methods

Herranen, Olli: Climate-Change Denialism as a Social Phenomenon in Finland

Juntunen, Miia: Cellular Interactions in White Adipose Tissue Browning

Mäkelä, Tiina: Early Sleep for Development (Sleep4Dev)

Möbus, Lena: A Data-driven Approach for In Vitro Drug Testing by Integration of Phenotypic and Target-based Drug Discovery Strategies

Pillalamarri, Srikrishnarka: Smart Mask for Non-invasive and Real-time Breath Metabolite Monitoring (SMART-BREATH)

Ressler, Antonia: Affordable Biomimetic Scaffolds Based on Substituted Calcium Phosphates and Bioactive Glass for Bone Regeneration Applications (GlassBoneS)

Senior Research Fellows 2024-2027

Hankaniemi, Minna: EVinONE – Vaccine and Diagnostic Tool Platform for Prevention and Intervention of Enterovirus-induced Diseases

Härkönen, Ville: Superconductivity Beyond the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation

Jylhävä, Juulia: Development of an Electronic Frailty Index for Finnish Healthcare to Identify At-Risk Individuals at Early Stages

Kokkinen, Lauri: Explaining Nordic Exceptionalism Using Fuzzy Sets

Kuusisto, Antti: Logic and Explainability in Artificial Intelligence

Kuusisto, Elina: Towards Professional Class Tutoring and a Motivating School Community (MOTI)