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Emmi Matikainen-Tervola

Wearable sensors provide new insights into outdoor walking in older adults

The results of this dissertation research showed that wearable sensors are suitable for assessing temporal gait parameters such as cadence and stride duration both in laboratory and outdoor settings.

Heljä Syrén

Doctoral dissertation: To cope with ethical situations, financial management needs training related to ethics

In her dissertation on accounting and corporate finance, M.Sc. Heljä Syrén examines the ethical situations encountered by financial management professionals in their work and the ethical decision-making involved in resolving the situations.

Emmi Reinilä

Psychological development in adulthood surprises – Mental well-being remains high

Emmi Reinilä’s (MSc) doctoral dissertation explores psychological development from middle adulthood to the beginning of late adulthood.

Amar Raj

Dissertation: Fluorescence spectroscopy illuminates molecular dynamics (Raj)

Amar Raj investigates in his dissertation thesis excited-state proton transfer in photoacid-base complexes using femtosecond fluorescence upconversion broadband spectroscopy. Raj defends on 13.11.2025.

Joonas Säntti

Dissertation: Queer narration in contemporary literature can resist the gendering of narrative voice

Dissertation by FM Joonas Säntti discusses exceptional phenomena in contemporary literature but connects them to a broader analysis of the gendering of narrative voice and challenges in political narratology.

Noora Piila

Dissertation: Paradoxes between economic and environmental value creation are a frequent barrier in corporate circular economy transitions - but they could also become a driver

In her doctoral dissertation in Corporate Environmental Management, M.Sc. (Econ.) Noora Piila explored the circular economy aspirations and challenges experienced by Finnish companies at different levels of circular economy maturity.

Viivi Korpela

Dissertation: Older adults learn digital skills better from peers than under hurried family guidance

In her doctoral dissertation in Social Policy, Viivi Korpela explores older adults’ digital inclusion, everyday digital skills, and digital services in the Wellbeing Services County of Central Finland.

Nosheen Kiran

Dissertation: Rodents amplify, cervids dilute: Host contributions to Lyme disease risk (Kiran)

The results of the dissertation deepen understanding of how rodents and cervids influence Lyme borreliosis risk in Finland and highlight the complexity of disease ecology in northern boreal environment. Nosheen Kiran defends on 7.11.2025.

Ankita Naik

Dissertation: Dithiadiazolyl and Diselenadiazolyl Organic radicals as building blocks for next-generation functional materials (Naik)

Ankita Naik prepared a series of binary organic radical ion salts and investigated their structure-property relationships for various applications. Her work paves the way for developing advanced memory devices, sensors for future technologies.

Dimitri Delcourt

Dissertation: Designing molecules that fold and interlock in water (Delcourt)

Doctoral Researcher Dimitri Delcourt developed in his dissertation peptidic catenanes that incorporate biological building blocks such as arginine. Delcourt will defend on 31.10.2025.

Maxim Virta

Dissertation: Studying the quark matter with small and large collision systems (Virta)

Maxim Virran väitöskirjan tarkastustilaisuus on 24.10.2025 Jyväskylän yliopiston fysiikan laitoksella.

Ville Virtanen

Dissertation: Development of measurement devices led to a breakthrough in the study of exotic nuclei (Virtanen)

In Ville Virtanen’s dissertation research, a Multi-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer was integrated and commissioned within the University of Jyväskylä Accelerator Laboratory’s Ion-Guide Isotope Separator On-Line (IGISOL) facility.