Väisälä Project Grant

Grants awarded in 2026

Assistant Professor Antti Moilanen, University of Eastern Finland, 200 000 e
”Electrically Powered Actively Tunable Nanolasers”

Assistant Professor Mirka Saarela, University of Jyväskylä, 200 000 e
”Multi-objective Analysis of Trade-offs for Responsible Intelligent XAI (MATRIX)”

Assistant Professor Anton Zasedatelev, Aalto University, 200 000 e
”Macro-TRAP: Making Macroscopic Objects Behave Quantum”,

Assistant Professor Saija Saarni, University of Turku, 200 000 e
”Tracking Arctic Change via boreal Lacustrine Environments (TRACE)”

Grants awarded in 2025

Assistant Professor Matti Javanainen, Tampere University, 150 000 e
”High-Throughput Computational Pipelines for Rapid Peptide Design” (Physics)

Research professor (tenure track) Christina Williamson, Finnish Meteorological Institution, 150 000 e
”Determination of Observations to Reduce Aerosol Radiative Forcing Uncertainty” (Physics)

Grants awarded in 2024

Assistant Professor Oscar Kivinen, Aalto University, 150.000
”Local automorphic forms and knot homology.” (Mathematics)

Assistant Professor Maaria Nordman, Aalto University, 150.000
”Crustal movements of the East Antarctica (MoveAnt).” (Geophysics)

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Grants awarded in 2023

Assistant Professor Matilda Backholm, Aalto University, 150.000
”Resolving the effects of external forces on internal structures in living materials.” (Physics)

Assistant Professor Joonas Ilmavirta, University of Jyväskylä, 150.000
”The mathematics of seismic planetary exploration.” (Mathematics, Geophysics)

Read more: Väisälä project grants 2023