Welcome to the Annual Science Day of the Faculty of Science on 18 December 2025! Come and hear more about the research highlights of our faculty.
This half-day seminar will give a good glimpse of the timely research done in all six units of our faculty.
You will have the opportunity to hear more of the research highlights of biology, chemistry, geography and geology, physics, biodiversity, mathematics and statistics, and learning analytics.
Two short 15 min presentations from each unit are meant for everyone interested in science. Coffee will be served during the break.
Welcome!
Seminar programme
Time: 18.12.2025 at 12.00–16.00
Venue: Tauno Nurmela Lecture Hall, Main Building
12:00–12:05 Opening words
12:05–13.50 Research highlights of the Faculty of Science
- From sustainable use of space towards space resilience
Professor Rami Vainio - Glyphosate – the world’s most used pesticide in our environment
Researcher, docent Marjo Helander - The role of PFAS in child brain development
Academy Research Fellow Alex Dickens - Not just mud: The hidden records of environmental change
Associate Professor Saija Saarni - Undecidability — limits of finite computation
Professor Vesa Halava - Collection-based research at the Natural History Museum of the University of Turku
University Researcher Sanna Huttunen - Game-based learning environments to promote adaptive expertise in school mathematics
Professor Jake McMullen
13:50–14:20 Coffee break
14:20–15:50 Research highlights of the Faculty of Science
- Unravelling the Global Spider Trade: Challenges and Implications for Policy
Postdoctoral Researcher Caroline Fukushima - Optimal stopping problems with delays and information constraints
Doctoral Researcher Tarmo Taipale - There are no natural disasters: Understanding climate change with communities
University Lecturer Lauri Hooli - From atoms to architectures: single crystal X-ray diffraction in MOF science
University Teacher Anssi Peuronen - Underwater microbattles: Phytoplankton under fungal attack
Academy Research Fellow Silke Van den Wyngaert - How to compute with almost anything: water, rocks, and quantum systems
Collegium Researcher Johannes Nokkala
15:50–16:00 Closing of the Science Day
Moderator of the event: Vice-Dean Juha-Pekka Salminen
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