2025, Jukka Pekola, physics
Pekola is a researcher in experimental low-temperature physics and one of the absolute international leaders in his field. His research focuses on the thermodynamics of nanostructures and the heat transfer properties of nanostructures. Early in his career, he invented a temperature sensor based on superconducting transitions (Physical Review Letters 73, 2903 (1994)). More recently, he […]
2024 Jouko Väänänen, mathematics
Jouko Väänänen (b. 1950) completed his doctorate in 1977 in Manchester. In 1983 he was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Helsinki and in 1999 to tenured professor, a position he held until his retirement in 2018. Currently, Väänänen continues to work at the department as research […]