2026, Tanja Kallio, chemistry
Professor Tanja Kallio, Aalto University. Professor Tanja Kallio (b. 1974) earned her Ph.D. in 2003 from the Helsinki University of Technology, majoring in physical and electrochemistry. After completing her dissertation, she worked as a researcher at the Helsinki University of Technology until she was appointed professor of physical chemistry in 2015, with a specific focus […]
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 […]