We are looking for healthy volunteers for research at the University of Jyväskylä. We are studying how brain activity influences balance control ability by measuring and stimulating the central nervous system.
The RADEF linear electron accelerator is a recommissioned Varian Clinac® medical accelerator. It is located in its own enclosure within the RADEF cave.
RADEF specialty is high penetration heavy ion cocktail beams which are used for commercial services and academic research. The beams are called ion cocktails, because they are mixture of ions with almost the same mass to charge ratio.
The University of Jyväskylä will launch a new type of educational working-life cooperation with Nokia and Elisa to integrate the strengths of the degree programmes of the Faculty of Information Technology and the enterprises’ RDI activities.
M.Sc. Antti Löppönen demonstrated in his doctoral dissertation that daily sit-to-stand (STS) transitions can be reliably detected and their velocity accurately determined using an accelerometer attached to the thigh.
In his recently published dissertation, M.Sc. Arpan Dutta reported studies on how to use the light-matter interactions at nanometer scale in order to characterize and even influence the chemical properties of organic molecules.