Tampere Institute for Advanced Study welcomes new Research Fellows to its research community
In the Call for Applications in spring 2025, nine two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and six three-year Senior Research Fellowships in Tampere University’s fields of research were open to new candidates. The process resulted in applications submitted by a total of 563 applicants. After the candidate pre-selection conducted by a selection committee consisting of the university’s professors in the fields of technology, health, and society, sixty-one shortlisted applications were ranked by international external evaluators in the same fields.
“Many of the international experts considered the overall standard of the applications they assessed to be high, which reflects the large number of applications received and the opportunity provided by the pre-selection process to submit only very high-quality applications for external evaluation," says Juha Teperi, the Director of the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study.
“Some of the now recruited Fellows have come to Tampere only recently, some have worked at our university already for a longer time. What they all share is the remarkable potential to take their research to the next level”, Teperi adds.
The President of Tampere University appointed fifteen Research Fellows based on the proposal of the selection committee in May. In accordance with the proposal, the President also placed 24 researchers on a reserve list.
The following researchers started their Research Fellowships at the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study on 1 September 2025:
Postdoctoral Research Fellows 2025–2027
Chakraborty, Nayanika: Unravelling the Impact of Breast Cancer Matrix Stiffness on Cellular Uptake and Efficacy of Nanostructured Lipid Carriers (MechanoTargeting)
Dindar, Katja: Autism and Intersubjectivity: Authentic Interactions and Lived Experiences
Eftekhari, Ali: Bioscaffold Fabrication upon Deep Tissue-Penetrating Red/Near-Infrared Light (DELIGHT)
Jaskari, Joel: Computationally Efficient Artificial Intelligence in Health
Malafeev, Konstantin: BIOdegradable Microplastics: Characterization, Long-term Environmental Aging, and Risk Assessment (BIO-CLEAR)
Perkiömäki, Mika: Climate Obstruction in Russian Media
Poursafa, Parinaz: Emerging Role of Environmental Exposures as Novel Risk Factors in Biological Aging
Schaffert, Alexandra: A Data-Driven Mechanistic Framework for Advanced Non-Animal Chemical Safety Assessment
Tuominen, Katariina: The Purpose of a Long Life: A Cross-cohort Qualitative Study on the Lived Experience of a Long Life and the Social Construction of Longevity
Senior Research Fellows 2025-2028
D’Ignazio, Marco: METAWIND: Advancing Geotechnical Modelling of Offshore Wind Foundations in the Gulf of Bothnia
Jafari, Mohieddin: Precision Combinatorial Targeted Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Based on Drug-tolerant Persister Cancer Cells
Haapasalo-Tuomainen, Karita: Inflammation in the Brain: The Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Alzheimer’s Disease
Korhonen, Onerva: ONerBrain: Optimized Multilayer Network Model for Interacting Brains
Könönen, Jukka: Fear of Small Numbers: The Instrumentalisation of Hybrid Threats and Militarisation of Migration Beyond the Northeastern Border Spectacle
Malinen, Antti: Children’s Experiences and Affordances of Informal Support in Finland, 1945–2025
