Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Natural Sciences grants funding for four researchers from the JYU

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering has decided to grant funding to four researchers from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science: Kalle Auranen and Riccardo Marin as Academy Research Fellow and Damian Dabrowski and Anton Nechaev as Postdoctoral Researcher.
Published
16.5.2022

Academy Research Fellows

Kalle Auranen: The design and manufacturing of the MARA low-energy branch (MARA-LEB) is ongoing in the JYFL Accelerator Laboratory. This project aims to design, implement and commission a decay station that is a key element to be used at the focal plane of the MARA-LEB, but also together with the regular MARA setup as well as at the focal plane of the RITU separator. The commissioning phase will be followed by an experimental campaign that aims to synthesize, identify and study the structure of multiple hitherto unknown isotopes close to the proton dripline at the rare-earth region of the nuclear chart.

Riccardo Marin: Mechanical forces are the form of force that we experience most directly in our day-to-day life. Surprisingly, even within our body cells communicate through mechanical forces; so much so that a thorough understanding of this “language” could shine light on how our bones grow and support the development of treatments for incapacitating diseases like Alzheimer. To study forces at the cellular level, researchers at the Ģֱ will develop tiny sensors capable of signalling the application of forces that are one billionth times smaller than the one exerted by a common ant’s bite. These nanosensors will change the colour of the light they emit in presence of mechanical stress in a predictable way, thus enabling the measurement of the applied force. Not only this technology will increase our knowledge about the workings of human body, but it will also provide strategies for the creation of more effective anticounterfeiting tags and methods for data encryption.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Damian Dabrowski: The class of uniformly rectifiable (UR) measures plays a central role in geometric measure theory due to their connection to harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. The underlying assumption on these measures is that they are "n-AD-regular", which can be understood as a "quantitative n-dimensionality" property. In a recent work of mathematician Xavier Tolsa and Dabrowski, a class of measures that generalizes UR measures to non-AD-regular setting was identified. The aim of this project is to obtain new characterizations of these measures, and then to use them to generalize some important recent results on harmonic measure to non-AD-regular setting. In parallel, Dabrowski will pursue some questions related to orthogonal projections, most notably ones involving the Favard length and Furstenberg sets.

Anton Nechaev: The carbon-carbon bond formation is one of the key classes of synthetic reactions. These reactions are essential for living organisms and the production of pharmaceuticals, dyes, and new materials. Construction of new carbon-carbon bonds constantly motivates scientists to explore new horizons for its utilization. In this project, we propose indoles as a novel class of components for catalytic carbon-carbon bond formation with transition metal catalysts. Indoles are abundant heterocycles in Nature and even occur as components of one amino acid, tryptophan. We aim at the construction of indole-based toolbox that would enable scientists to select a suitable indole for carbon-carbon bond formation, especially under oxidative conditions.

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