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Research Assesment Exercise 2007 Volume I Research Assesment Exercise 2007 Department of Physical Sciences University of Oulu, Finland Oulu, May 2007 1 Research Assessment Exercise 2007 University of Oulu Finland Research Assessment Exercise 2007 Department of Physical Sciences P.O. Box 3000 90014 UNIVERSITY OF OULU http://physics.oulu.fi/ Panel Natural Sciences IV Volume I Submission form - Department of Physical Sciences 2 Research Assessment Exercise 2007 Table of Contents Table of Contents.....................................................................................................................2 1. Staff .................................................................................................................................4 1a. Statistics on all staff of the Department of Physical Sciences during the period 2001-2006...........................................................................................................................4 1b. List of research active staff in the Department of Physical Sciences during the period 2001-2006...........................................................................................................................5 2. Publications........................................................................................................................11 2a. Description of the research profile and research training ...........................................11 2b. Complete list of publications .......................................................................................18 2b.2 Code 2 (article in a foreign or international scientific journal) .................................18 2b.6 Code 3 (article in a foreign or international compilation or conference publication).......50 2b.6 Code 6 (article or book which doesn’t fit into any other group )....................................66 2b.8 Code 8 (edited publication published abroad)................................................................66 2b.9 Code 9 (printed abstract published abroad) ...................................................................67 2b.10 Code 10 (scientific monograph published in Finland) ..................................................86 2b.11 Code 11 (article in a Finnish scientific refereed journal) ..............................................86 2b.12 Code 12 (article in a Finnish compilation or conference publication) ...........................87 2b.15 Code 15 (publication in the own university’s departmental series) ..............................88 2b.16 Code 16 (article in the own university’s departmental series) ......................................88 2b.19 Code 19 (article or book which doesn’t fit into any other group (for example newspaper article, popularized article, popularized book, lecture hand-out etc.) published in Finland)...........................................................................................89 2b.20 Code 20 (videotape, audio tape, film, radio programme or computer programme for public distribution published in Finland)..............................................................90 2b.21 Code 21 (cited publication published in Finland (the informant as editor), translation task published in Finland)...................................................................................90 2b.22 Code 22 (printed abstract published in Finland)...........................................................90 2c. Selected compilation of publications 2001-2006.......................................................115 2c.1 Astronomy ........................................................................................................115 2c.2 Biophysics .........................................................................................................116 2c.3 Geophysics........................................................................................................116 Submission form - Department of Physical Sciences 3 Research Assessment Exercise 2007 2c.4 Physics ..............................................................................................................117 2c.5 Theoretical Physics ...........................................................................................121 2d. The best publications................................................................................................122 2d.1 Astronomy .........................................................................................................122 2d.2 Biophysics..........................................................................................................122 2d.3 Geophysics........................................................................................................123 2d.4 Physics ..............................................................................................................123 2d.5 Theoretical Physics............................................................................................124 3. Doctoral theses and degrees ...........................................................................................124 3a. List of doctoral theses 2001-2006.............................................................................125 3a.1 Year 2001 .........................................................................................................125 3a.2 Year 2002 .........................................................................................................128 3a.3 Year 2003 .........................................................................................................131 3a.4 Year 2004 .........................................................................................................135 3a.5 Year 2005 .........................................................................................................140 3a.6 Year 2006 .........................................................................................................144 3b. Number of doctoral degrees 2001-2006 ...................................................................149 4. Self-assessment exercise for the Department of Physical Sciences ...............................150 4a. Evaluation of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats..............................150 4b. Interaction between the research and education in the Department of Physical Sciences ...................................................................................................................152 5. Other academic activity and collaboration........................................................................153 5a. Academics visits 2001-2006 .....................................................................................153 5b. Visiting academics 2001-2006..................................................................................155 5c. Editorial and other academic assignments ...............................................................157 5c.1 Invited talks at international conferences ................................................................... 157 5c.2 Referee activities for international journals ............................................................... 161 5c.3 List of expert assignments.............................................................................................. 163 5c.4 International scientific prizes ......................................................................................... 167 6. Funding ............................................................................................................................167 6a. All funding of the Department of Physical Sciences from the budget of the university...................................................................................................................168 6b. External research funding of the Department of Physical Sciences .........................168 7. Signature of the Head of the Unit .....................................................................................169 Submission form - Department of Physical Sciences 4 Research Assessment Exercise 2007 1. Staff 1a. Statistics on all staff of the Department of Physical Sciences during the period 2001-2006 The numbers are given in person years. Category of the staff 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Overall number of the research active staff 41 40 42 43 41 41 • Senior Staff 10 9 10 11 9 10 • Docents who are not members of the senior staff 12 12 13 13 13 12 • Postdoctoral staff 2 2 2 3 3 3 • Doctoral students 17 17 17 16 16 16 • Other research active staff • Visiting scholars and visiting doctoral students Teaching staff Technical support staff 9 8 8 8 7 7 Administrative staff 8 8 7 7 6 6 Staff altogether 58 56 57 58 54 54 Submission form - Department of Physical Sciences 5 Research Assessment Exercise 2007 1b. List of research active staff in the Department of Physical Sciences during the period 2001-2006 Senior Staff Name Title (position) Academic Period(s) Degree Professors Other position held are given Aksela, Helena acad.prof. 1.8.2001-31.7.2006 PhD 1.1.2001-31.12.2006 Aksela, Seppo senior res. 1.8.2002-31.7.2003 PhD 1.1.2001-31.12.2006 Jokisaari, Jukka senior res. 1.8.2001-31.7.2002 PhD 1.1.2001-31.12.2006 Mursula, Kalevi PhD 1.1.2001-31.12.2006 Nygrén, Tuomo PhD 1.1.2001-31.12.2006 Weckström, Matti MD 1.1.2001-31.12.2006 Hjelt, Sven-Erik DrTech 1.1.2001-30.9.2004 Kaikkonen, Pertti PhD 1.1.2001-31.12.2006 Suhonen, Esko PhD 1.1.2001-30.6.2001 Rummukainen, Kari senior res. 1.8.2003-31.7.2006 PhD 1.8.2003-31.12.2006 Thuneberg, Erkki DrTech 1.7.2001-31.12.2006 Poutanen,
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