These nine two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow and six three-year Senior Research Fellow posts were open in the research fields represented at Tampere University in the Tampere IAS Call for Applications in February-March 2026, in which applications from a total of 725 applicants were submitted.
The following researchers have accepted their Fellowships and will join the Tampere IAS community in September 2026:
Postdoctoral Research Fellows 2026-2028
Technology
Milisavljevic, Iva: Advancing Understanding of Room-temperature plasticity and Optical Response in Amorphous oxide films (acronym: AURORA)
Neri, Michael: Audio Deepfake Detection using Spatial Audio
Rubio Ruiz, Rafael Arturo: Lifetime-Informed Design Optimization for Sustainable Manufacturing (LIDO-SuMa)
Health
del Giudice, Giusy: A Mechanistic View of Environmental Health: Linking Epigenetic Regulation to Disease and Ecosystem Resilience
Sözmen, Alper Baran: Magneto-Plasmonic Nano-Architectures for Isolation and Profiling Extracellular and Bacterial Membrane Vesicles
Toseef, Muhammad: Generalizable Multimodal Deep Learning for Early Diabetes Risk Prediction from Electronic Health Records
Society
Enbom, Leena: Invisible Earners: Rethinking the Male Breadwinner in Nordic Working-Class Households, 1890–1920
Horppu, Johanna: Configuring Digital Waste: Marketing Imperatives and Consumer Experiences of Digital Excess
Tiihonen, Aino: Partners in Politics: Political Homogamy, Parenthood, and Polarization in Contemporary Societies (POP-GAP)
Senior Research Fellows 2026-2029
Technology
Chen, Feixiong: Next Generation of Neuro-Diagnostic Assay (NEURO): Innovative Magnetophoretic Nanopore Sensing (IMAGES) Technology for Decoding High-order Protein Complexes
Tewari, Amit: 2D Materials-based NEUROmorphic Architecture for Flexible Electronics Using High-Photonic-Sintering (2D-NEURO)
Health
Gramolelli, Silvia: Decoding EBV–PIK3CA Cooperation in Gastric Oncogenesis and in Tolerance to PI3Kα Inhibition
Raitoharju, Emma: Epigenetic Profiles Mediating the Effects of Past Exposures to the Future Risk of Cardiometabolic Diseases
Society
Helminen, Terhi: Bodily Synchrony, Socioemotional Communication and a Sense of Connection in Neurodiverse Children (AS-Connection)
Tervonen, Miika: Deportation Turn and the Post-Universal Welfare State in North-Western Europe (NORDEP)