Katri Huitu giving presentation at the SAB Meeting 30.8.2022 (photo Juha Aaltonen) More information (https://flamma.helsinki.fi/s/mXqYs): “Katri Huitu appointed director of Helsinki Institute Physics. The board of Institute proposed Katri Huitu to continue as the Director of HIP for a five year period starting on 1.2.2023. The call was open and five people applied for the...Continue reading→

The chamber at CERN where measurements were conducted (Image: Hanna Manninen) A new mechanism was discovered in a study published in the journal Nature, which suggests that nitric acid, sulphuric acid and ammonia can together form aerosol particles and ice nuclei much more efficiently than previously understood. This mechanism is thought to be particularly significant...Continue reading→

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→