Technology and Natural Sciences Doctoral Programme

27/02/2024

The statue of the Oulu marketplace policeman Toripolliisi was created to endorse all those oldtime policemen that safeguarded peace at the Oulu marketplace during 1934-1979

15/01/2024

https://www.oulu.fi/en/news/new-innovation-unpacking-hydrogen-and-carbon-methane-can-contribute-cleaner-energy-and-improve

Low-emission and energy-efficient methane pyrolysis is a hydrogen production method that is already in use, and the carbon generated as a by-product plays a major part in developing new battery technologies.

09/05/2023

Enabled by doctoral research at University of Oulu: From a doctoral researcher to an entrepreneur

Practical need acted as a driver for producing more environmentally friendly construction materials when Juho Yliniemi, current Assistant Professor at the University of Oulu, founded Keko Geopolymeerit Oy based on his doctoral studies. The idea developed from the frustration that the use of mineral side streams and the involved opportunities raised no interest in the industry producing these side streams. The business has grown steadily since the company was established.
Link: https://www.oulu.fi/en/news/researcher-entrepreneur-practical-need-acted-driver-producing-more-environmentally-friendly

14/02/2023

Wise words - keep your eyes wide open for all ideas to create something new

Professor of Biosensors Caglar Elbuken enjoys having free reins in his research. He likes to think big and doesn’t want to limit his research within rigid boundaries such as specific disciplinary approaches or existing products and technologies.

20/05/2022

University of Oulu is among the three percent of the ranked top-level universities
In the world there are around 17,000 to 23,000 universities depending on the method of calculation. University of Oulu is usually ranked in the top three per cent. UniOulu’s strengths lays on its publishing activity in high level publications (e.g. Nature, Science) but also citation indexes. In the fields of science, UniOulu ranks well in e.g. medicine, life sciences, biology, information technology and data processing, electrical engineering, geography.
UniOulu takes part in about five rankings every year. The most important of these are the “Shanghai list”; Times Higher Education (THE) ranking; QS World University Rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds; and the CWTS ranking by Leiden University.
More:
https://www.oulu.fi/en/university/university-rankings

31/01/2022

Even materials have their own fingerprints, which can be studied using contemporary modern equipment and research methods. The high-level research group of the University of Oulu combines physics and chemistry to reveal the secrets of the materials.
The video digs deep into the research of this area (spoken in Finnish, texts in English).

04/01/2022

Frost quake is a common phenomenon in the cold regions in wintertime — now and then even in the Oulu Region in the Northern Finland. The researchers of the University of Oulu have developed the first ever method to predict these quakes.

More about the frost quakes and the method in the linked video (in Finnish with English translation):