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Academy Professors are internationally leading-edge researchers in their field who are expected to have a great scientific impact in the scientific community and in society at large. In the call for proposals, a total of 249 researchers submitted letters of intent. The number of researchers applying for funding for an Academy Professorship hit a record high.

Professor of General History Pasi Ihalainen explores political representation, analysing tensions between parliament and the people from the age of revolutions to the 21st century.

Using the concepts of representation and popular sovereignty, Ihalainen will investigate historical and present-day constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of parliamentary legitimacy in political discourse.

He will search and analyse digitised parliamentary records from Finland and a number of other European countries.

Otso Ovaskainen will start as a professor of mathematical and statistical ecology at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ on January 2021. He will move to Jyväskylä from his position as a professor of mathematical ecology at the University of Helsinki, where he has worked since 2009.

Ovaskainen is a world-class expert in mathematical and statistical modelling. He has developed new methods for empirical data collection and statistical analysis in ecological research. The methods have been used all over the world.

Currently, Otso Ovaskainen is leading an internationally unique study in which the diversity of nature is mapped at the same time in over 450 locations all over the world. Data on species are collected through DNA and audio samples and camera trap photos utilising automation-based methods. In 2019, the research received 12 million euros of ERC funding.

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For further information:
Professor Pasi Ihalainen, pasi.t.ihalainen@jyu.fi, tel. +358 400 247 457
Professor Otso Ovaskainen (starting 2 January 2021), otso.ovaskainen@helsinki.fi, tel. +358 50 3092795

Communications Specialist Tanja Heikkinen, tanja.s.heikkinen@jyu.fi, +358 50 472 1162