This week, we had the traditional sports afternoon, and in honor of the currently on-going Winter Olympics 2026, we also, or at least some of us did some wintersports. Due to the great winter, or let's say, cold but not so snowy winter, we have a good ice rink this year on the harbor bay. Unfortunately, some of us were less able to attend due to the heavy flu season, but watching the Olympics on the sofa felt as effective! 😎
Our research group has done a marvellous job with funding this year already! 😍 Firstly, Janne has received a postdoctoral funding from Päivikki and Sakari Sohlberg's Foundation (link); secondly, Adela, a Ph.D. grant from Instrumentarium Research Foundation (link); thirdly, Hamed, a Ph.D. grant from Cultural Foundation (link) and lastly, Andy, the UEF travel grant. And in addition to these, Kati, a Ph.D. student whom I co-supervise with Prof. Jarkko Rautio, also received the Cultural Foundation Ph.D. grant. So congratulations to all, and keep up doing such great work in the future!
Unfortunately most of the UEF press releases are in Finnish.
A new or perhaps "old" team member has arrived (or returned?). Thanavit, better known as Tonnaow from Thailand, has finally arrived and is ready to start his Ph.D. studies, so warmly welcome Tonnaow! The place and people are mainly familiar to him, as he visited us as an exchange student in 2023. Something must have been in our drinking-water, or perhaps he forgot something as he wanted to come back! 😍 Anyway, we are super-happy to see you here again, and we are looking forward to all that we can achieve with the mitochondrial project that he is going to work on.
