Associate Professor

Yesterday, it finally was my first day as an Associate Professor. Long journey so far, and I'll bet that this is just a start. So it took almost 2 years from the official decision to start my Tenure Track until it really start. Well, I have no hurries at the moment, but sometimes it has felt a bit awkward to explain why I'm not preceding in my career. Well, now someone is really retiring and if everything goes well I will fill his Full Professorship within 3-4 years. We'll see what happens. Anyway, we celebrated a bit at work yesterday, together with the J. Med. Chem. paper. The press release has really expanded the interests towards the topic! But at the same time, we spent also Vej's and Tonnaow's farewell, since they are leaving Kuopio today. I'm really thankful for the hard work you did with the very challenging projects in our group, and I hope our roads will cross somehow and somewhere in the future!