New Academy Projects, Research Fellows and Postdoctoral Researchers to University of Turku

​The Academy of Finland granted funding to altogether 14 Academy projects, 6 research fellows and 10 postdoctoral researchers at the University of Turku according to the application round of autumn 2014.

Academy Projects

Belogurov, Georgi: Mechanism of transcription elongation and termination
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €541,411)

Brommer, Jon: Evolutionary quantitative genetics of personality in the wild
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €394,790)

Gissler, Mika: Time trend changes of child and adolescent mental health, service use and well-being in multiple Finnish cohorts
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €500,000)

Huumo, Tuomas: Construal of Means and Time
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €346,494)

Härkönen, Juho: Life course experiences, intergenerational processes, and child well-being and development
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €600,000)

Ilonen, Jorma: Genetic dissection of different pathways to type 1 diabetes
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €422,935)

Kaikkonen, Jari: Environmental pollutants as risk factors for subclinical atherosclerosis, impaired glucose and lipid metabolism and overweight
(1 September 2015 - 30 August 2018, €190,650)

Koskinen, Päivi: Pim substrates in regulation of metastatic growth of prostate cancer cells
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €499,368)

Knuutila, Timo: NoStrokes: Automated detection of atrial fibrillation via an miniature accelerometer
(1 September 2015 - 30 August 2019, €358,769)

Maniscalco, Sabrina: Quantum Information Probes for Complex Systems
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €616,601)

Metsä-Ketelä, Mikko: Molecular Evolution of Antibiotic Biosynthesis Enzymes
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €596,586)

Primmer, Craig: The molecular mechanisms of rapid thermal adaptation in a European grayling meta-population
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €605,405)

Salmenniemi, Suvi-Tuulia: Tracking the therapeutic: ethnographies of wellbeing, politics and inequality
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €526,521)

Zavialov, Anton: Fimbrial adhesins: assembly mechanism, structure and functions in animal and plant pathogenesis and sporulation
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019, €578,992)

Academy Research Fellows

Karmitsa, Napsu: Complex Nonsmooth Optimization
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2020, €434,485)

Lönnberg, Tuomas: Metallo-oligonucleotides for the recognition and inhibition of miRNA
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2020, €434,485)

Matomäki, Kaisa: Analytic number theory
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2020, €434,485)

Ramula, Satu: Populations in temporally varying environments: a demographic approach
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2020, €434,485)

Ruuskanen, Suvi: Maternal thyroid hormones in birds: ecology, evolution and environmental disruption
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2020, €434,485)

Stenholm, Sari: Healthy aging at work and after retirement:  focus on behavioral and clinical changes during retirement transition
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2020, €434,485)

Postdoctoral Researchers

Airola, Antti: Kernel-based structured prediction
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018, €231,389)

Fredriksson, Antti: Trust and Lending in SMEs: A Longitudinal European Comparative Study
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018, €239,679)

Durian, Guido: Lipid bodies as a signalling compartment in plant immunity
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018, €238,088)

Korja, Riikka: Maternal caretaking behavior, infant's self-regulation capacity and child's socio-emotional development in two different risk populations: children of mothers with prenatal mood disturbances and children born very preterm
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018, €254,501)

Lietzén, Niina: Enterovirus induced innate immune responses in the development of type 1 diabetes
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018, €263,826)

Rytkönen, Kalle: Origin of novel gene regulatory networks in the evolution of mammalian pregnancy
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018, €269,609)

Sustar, Vid: The role of lipids and membrane subdomains in B cell receptor organization and signaling
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018, €258,380)

Taipaleenmäki, Hanna: Role of noncoding RNAs as drivers of oncogenic phenotype and modulators of therapy resistance in prostate cancer
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018, €278,458)

Toivanen, Mari: Civic participation via diasporic circulation – comparative study on second-generation political transnationalism in Kurdish and Turkish diaspora organisations in Helsinki and London
(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018, €223,583)

Toivonen, Raine: Characterization of migratory dendritic cells of colon lamina propria and their role in breaking the peripheral tolerance leading autoimmunity(1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018, €271,042)

Academy Professors

in addition, the Academy of Finland chose eight new Academy Professors in May. Two of them will be working at the University of Turku.

Read more about the new Academy Professors

Text: Liisa Reunanen
Photo: Esko Keski-Oja
Translation: Mari Ratia