Centres of Excellence in Research 2012‒2017
The Centre of Excellence Programme 2012‒2017 involves 15 Centres of Excellence (CoE) in Research, composed of research teams from a total of eleven universities and research institutes. Each CoE is coordinated by the university mentioned below. The new CoEs are conducting research in a wide spectrum of research fields, ranging from the interaction between cells and intercellular substance, molecular systems immunology and physiology to Russia’s modernisation and the history of the structures of Finnish society.
(director, unit, university)
- Aaltonen, Lauri: Finnish CoE in Cancer Genetics Research, University of Helsinki (UH)
- Haapala, Pertti: The History of a Society: Rethinking Finland 1400–2000, University of Tampere (UTA)
- Hanski, Ilkka: Finnish CoE in Metapopulation Research, UH
- Julin Rauno: Finnish CoE in Nuclear and Accelerator-based Physics, University of Jyväskylä (UJ)
- Kivinen, Markku: Finnish CoE in Russian Studies – Choices of Russian Modernisation, UH
- Leskelä, Markku: Finnish CoE in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), UH
- Mappes, Johanna: Finnish CoE in Biological Interactions Research, UJ
- Mäki, Uskali: Finnish CoE in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, UH
- Nieminen, Risto: Finnish CoE in Computational Nanoscience, Aalto University (AU)
- Oja, Erkki: Finnish CoE in Computational Inference Research, AU
- Orešič, Matej: Finnish CoE in Molecular Systems Immunology and Physiology Research, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Pekola, Jukka: Finnish CoE in Low Temperature Quantum Phenomena and Devices, AU
- Pihlajaniemi, Taina: Finnish CoE in Cell-Extracellular Matrix Research, University of Oulu (UO)
Päivärinta, Lassi: Finnish CoE in Inverse Problems Research, UH
- Sorjonen, Marja-Leena: Finnish CoE in Intersubjectivity in Interaction, UH