Professor Aleksi Vuorinen. (Image: Veikko Somerpuro) Aleksi Vuorinen, HIP project leader (High Energy Phenomenology) and professor of theoretical physics from the University of Helsinki was presented the award (prize sum €20,000) by the Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation for his successful research on the application of Quantum Chromodynamics to quark matter of finite density or temperature. More...Continue reading→

(The LHC tunnel at point 1. Image: CERN) The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has restarted after a break of more than three years for maintenance, consolidation, and upgrade work. Today, 22 April, afternoon two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions around the Large Hadron Collider’s 27-kilometre ring at their injection energy...Continue reading→

(Image: screen capture from the video posted in European Research Council’s YouTube channel) Professor Tuuli Toivonen and Associate Professor Mikko Voutilainen from Kumpula Campus and Associate Professor Pekka Katajisto from Viikki Campus were granted competitive ERC Consolidator Grants in the 2021 call. More information here: https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2021-consolidator-grants-results https://flamma.helsinki.fi/s/DFq6V (intranet, requires login)Continue reading→