Reactivit'Air

The annual seminar of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Atmospheric Science – From Molecular and Biological Processes to the Global Climate led by Academician Markku Kulmala took place in Helsinki last week from 4 to 6 October 2017. The seminar offers a unique opportunity for participants to share their work and discover the work of collaborators beyond their immediate field of research to foster innovative future research. What is a Centre of Excellence? Funding provided by the Academy of Finland to CoEs aims at creating research and training networks to achieve long-term (and even risky!) objectives. The Academy of Finland's Centres of Excellence (CoE) are the flagships of Finnish research. They are close to or at the very cutting edge of science in their fields, carving out new avenues for research, developing creative research environments and training new talented researchers for the Finnish research system and Finnish business and industry. (Source:  A...

Here we are! Today marks the start of my Research Fellowship from the Academy of Finland . It also marks the launch of this blog to present my research and reach out to an audience beyond my research community. Being awarded the Fellowship feels like a small breakthrough in my scientific career. I have been working on various proposals during my time as a postdoc and finally my project was ripe enough to be favorably received by my peers. You will find a description of the project in a separate page: REAC-FORTE . In today's blog post, I simply wanted to reflect on the changes implied by my new title of Academy Research Fellow . What changes? Funding:  I now have my own funding source for my salary and also for research costs (including the salary of one graduate student!) Independence: My level of independence increased as a result of the new funding source and I am now a Principal Investigator (PI). Responsibilities:  As PI, I am in charge of the project and I am ...