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Research Council of Finland awards funding for 13 new Academy Research Fellows and Academy Projects in natural sciences and engineering

Published on 13.6.2025

Tampere University

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The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering has awarded grants to five new Academy Research Fellowships and eight Academy Projects at Tampere University. Researchers at Tampere University received a total of €7.2 million in research funding.

The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering selected 48 researchers to receive an Academy Research Fellowship and 69 projects to get Academy Project Funding. The new Academy Projects are composed of 107 subprojects. The total funding is around €34 million for Academy Research Fellowships and around €50,5 million for Academy Projects. The funding period in the Academy Research Fellowship and Academy Project funding schemes is four years.

In this round, the applicant success rate was about 11% in Academy Research Fellowships and some 15% in Academy Projects.

New Academy Research Fellows at Tampere University

Gökhan Alcan: Human Intention Aware Control Strategies for Autonomous Driving (HUMINAC), €699,993. See the funding decision for details on Gökhan Alcan’s research.

Hongshuang Guo: Smart Biomedical PlaTforms Using Advanced Stimuli-Responsive Materials (STAR), €745,187. See the funding decision for details on Hongshuang Guo’s research.

Mikko Heino: Future generation in-band full-duplex mobile handset design,
€712,877. See the funding decision for details on Mikko Heino’s research.

Maryamolsadat Samavaki: Mathematical Modelling of Neurovascular Coupling: Navier-Stokes and Convection-Diffusion Approaches to Hemodynamics and Epileptic Foci (Hemo-Epilepsy), €738,940. See the funding decision for details on Maryamolsadat Samavaki’s research.

Jussi Sihvo: Intelligent battery management protocols: real-time impedance-based state estimation methods for lifetime maximization of Li-ion batteries and applications, €754,280. See the funding decision for details on Jussi Sihvo’s research.

New Academy Projects at Tampere University

Mikko Hokka: 4th Generation Steels from Phase Transformation Studies, €496,589 (as a coordinator in a consortium). See the funding decision for details on Mikko Hokka’s research.

Panu Karjalainen: Plastic-derived emerging aerosol pollutants from fires, €216,198 (as a partner in a consortium coordinated by the University of Eastern Finland). See the funding decision for details on Panu Karjalainen’s research.

Antti Kuusisto: Perspectives on computational logic, €559,934. See the funding decision for details on Antti Kuusisto’s research.

Dmitri Moltchanov: Dynamic Wavefront Control for Terahertz 6G Cellular Systems, €349,098. See the funding decision for details on Dmitri Moltchanov’s research.

Roel Pieters: Practical and Reliable Foundation Models for Robot Manipulation (PERFORM), €599,788. See the funding decision for details on Roel Pieters’ research.

Ismo Rakkolainen: Immersive haptics and visuals for XR interaction, €599,739. See the funding decision for details on Ismo Rakkolainen’s research.

Mikko Valkama: Sustainable 6G Radio Access Networks: Methods, Models, and Algorithms, €396,927 (as a partner in a consortium coordinated by the University of Oulu). See the funding decision for details on Mikko Valkama’s research.

Ari Visa: Sea Ice Characterization from Earth Observation Data by Explainable Artificial Intelligence, €342,336 (as a partner in a consortium coordinated by the Finnish Meteorological Institute). See the funding decision for details on Ari Visa’s research.

Hongshuang Guo's project corrected as an Academic Research Fellow project on 16 June 2025.