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In total the Research Council granted funding for 78 Academy Projects. The total funding granted comes to 45.7 million euros.

“This year, many of the projects presented bold new scientific ideas. In addition, we received a number of high-quality, multidisciplinary consortium applications formed by several research organisations where the added value of the consortium was significant”, Professor Reko Leino, Chair of the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, said the in the Academy of Finland’s release.

Professor Kari J. Eskola received funding of 600 000 euros for research that aims at developing a simultaneous theory-study of various observables in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions for testing the Quantum Chromodynamics sector in the Standard Model of particle physics. The project aims at determining the quark-gluon structure of nuclei and the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma from data produced at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Various computational methods will be used in the modelling, covering the whole nuclear collision. The project involves researcher training at all levels and is very timely due to the ongoing LHC heavy-ion experiments.

Professor Janne Ihalainen (picture above) and Professor Gerrit Groenhof (picture below) received funding of almost 800 000 euros for GenEn Project Consortium that aims to answer how the protein surroundings affect their function.

The project combines time-resolved spectroscopy, time-resolved crystallography and computation to investigate enzymatic reactions in crystal and solution. With this combination of techniques the researchers can investigate an enzymatic process at both the relevant time and spatial resolution.

“Thanks to the development of free electron lasers, it has become possible to catch proteins in the act and observe their dynamics while they perform their function. Because this technique only works for protein crystals, it also raises again the decades-old question if the restrains imposed by the crystal conditions hamper the protein’s function and dynamics with respect to solution. While this question has been addressed by many researchers, experimental techniques to investigate these effects have only become available very recently.”

Professor Jan Lundell received funding of almost 400 000 euros for the research that is part of LICCAC Consortium. The project aims to investigate chemically complex, atmospherically relevant systems containing both intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds, in order to gain insight into their structure and physico-chemical properties, including their chemical reactivity.

“This research project will advance our understanding of the diversity of the chemistry of interacting oxidized organic molecules (as well as water), and the ways that their chemistry can be controlled selectively by light in a low temperature solid medium. Additionally, we will gain insight into the role that intermolecular interactions play in both air quality and climate change (via organic aerosol processes), as well as the economy of energy between atmospheric constituents.”

Professor Jani Onninen received a funding of almost 550 000 euros for a project “Sobolev Mappings and Energy Integrals in Geometric Function Theory”.

The research is a part of research program to develop variational techniques in modern Geometric Function Theory with applied fields such as the theory of Nonlinear Elasticity in mind. The project includes supervising a Ph.D. student and mentor postdoctoral scholars on the project subjects. 

For further information:
Kari J. Eskola, kari.eskola@jyu.fi , +358408054066
Janne Ihalainen, janne.ihalainen@jyu.fi, +358 40 024 7979
Gerrit Groenhof, gerrit.x.groenhof@jyu.fi, +358408054664
Jan Lundell, jan.c.lundell@jyu.fi, +358407445270
Jani Onninen, jani.k.onninen@jyu.fi, +358 40 8053747

Communications Specialist Tanja Heikkinen, tanja.s.heikkinen@jyu.fi, tel. 358 50 581 8351
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