Funding for four new Academy Research Fellow and 14 Postdoctoral Researcher posts
On May 7, the Academy of Finland has awarded a total of about 9 million euros to 20 new Academy Research Fellows and 11 million euros to 43 new Postdoctoral Researchers in the fields of Natural Sciences and Engineering. Of these, Aalto University has received a total of about 1.7 million euros for Academy Research Fellow posts and a total of approximately 3.5 million euros for Postdoctoral Researcher posts. The funding period starts on 1 September 2019.
Both forms of financing are highly competitive. Approximately 10 per cent of all applications submitted to the Academy Research Fellowship and about 16 per cent of the applications submitted to the Postdoctoral Researcher were funded.
Academy Research Fellow
Funding 438 874 euros per person
Asghar, Muhammad Imran, Dept. of Applied Physics
Leading-edge next generation fuel cell devices
Peltola, Emilia, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Automation
Carbon Interface Connecting Living and Artificial Worlds CICLAW
Peng, Bo, Dept. of Applied Physics
Design and self-assembly of anisotropic particles for advanced colloidal structures and materials
Snicker, Antti, Dept. of Applied Physics
Fast and furious of fusion plasmas
Postdoctoral Researcher
Funding 234 000 – 270 000 euros per person
Afzalifar, Ali, Dept. of Applied Physics
Electric Field; an Active Method to Control Phase Change
Arora, Shashank, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
3D-Printed Ultra-thick Batteries with enhanced cycle Life and In-built Cooling system (PUBLIC)
Cuerda, Javier, Dept. of Applied Physics
Spatio-Temporal Theory for Tunable Nanoscale Coherent light source (SPATUNANO)
Gallo, Pasquale, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Multiscale models for the fatigue assessment of engineering applications: experimental investigation of fatigue mechanisms at micro and nanoscale
Generalov, Andrey, Dept. of Electronics and Nanoengineering
High-performance room-temperature graphene based THz heterodyne detectors
Hartmann, Robert, Dept. of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
Interfacial modification of mineral surfaces using bio-colloids derived from sustainable resources with respect to froth flotation
Kohl, Florian, Dept. of Mathematics and Systems Analysis
Lattice Polytopes in Algebra, Combinatorics, and Mathematical Physics
Liu, Yu-Chang, Dept. of Chemistry and Materials Science
CEVALOR – Cellular factories for the valorization of biorefinery chemicals
Mutanen, Tuomas, Dept. of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Probing human-awareness with novel high-resolution multi-locus brain-stimulation technique
Niinivaara, Elina, Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems
Tuning cellulose nanocrystal/water interactions with designer cello-oligosaccharides
Pan, Zhengze, Dept. of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
Cathode Kinetics and Materials for High Temperature Lithium-Oxygen Batteries
Tavakkoli, Mohammad, Dept. of Applied Physics
Advanced Nanocatalysts for Electrochemical Energy Devices (ANCED)
Tiira, Jonna, Dept. of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Low loss III-V semiconductors for electroluminescent cooling (LOST)
Virta, Joni, Dept. of Mathematics and Systems Analysis
Dimension Reduction for Tensorial Data
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