Current news at the Department of Biological and Environmental Science

The JYU Faculty of Mathematics and Science will celebrate its 60th anniversary. The programme includes speeches, music and alumni meetings.

Postdoctoral researcher Varpu Pärssinen has received over €200,000 from the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. She is investigating why the sperm of some animal species form larger conjugates.

We asked Anu Tourunen, Samuel Lindholm, and Mira Kajanus about their tasks for the day, but at the same time, we got a bigger picture of the goals of their research.

The Faculty of Mathematics and Science was founded in 1965 and is one of the flagships of the University of Jyväskylä. The faculty conducts high-quality, high-impact basic research. The main celebration will take place on 6 November 2025.

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.

Faculty of Mathematics and Science celebrates its 60th anniversary this year! The faculty will present its achievements and the people behind them as well as its future direction, while celebrating its long and impressive history, which continue.

Using Finland as a case study, Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä investigated whether the most valuable forests in terms of biodiversity conservation are still being harvested or if they are under efficient protection.

Researchers in the Department of Biological and Environmental Science have studied the biodegradability of biodegradable plastics in lakes and the Baltic Sea as part of the PlastLIFE project.

Xiaoxuan Hu examined how sensitive various aquatic species were to enhanced sulfate concentrations and conducted a multi-species modeling to derive predicted no effect concentrations for sulfate in boreal freshwater and in the coastal Baltic Sea brackish.

Soil Dwellers exhibition at Villa Elfvik Nature House in Espoo (2.10.–26.11.2025) explores forest soil ecosystems and organisms through visual storytelling sparking curiosity about our interactions with nature.

The new professors of practice Saara Vauramo and Kaisa Mustajärvi will strengthen the social impact of the Department of Biological and Environmental Science, and the JYU.Wisdom community in the fields of environmental science and planetary well-being.

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen (Germany) and University of Jyväskylä (Finland) investigated how the Triad forest management framework can support biodiversity conservation in European beech forests.