Research

The University conducts high quality research especially in the fields of health care and environmental sciences as well as biosciences.

Centres of Excellence

Many of the researchers working in the A.I.Virtanen Institute’s laboratories are world leaders in their field. The University also houses several research units which have been awarded the prestigious status of Centre of Excellence by the Academy of Finland.

These groups carry out research in the fields of cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes, atmospheric composition and climate change, health risk analysis of environmental factors, and development and testing of new biomaterials and medical devices.

Nordic Centres of Excellence

In addition, three research groups at the University of Kuopio are involved in the Nordic excellence programme (2002–2007), which focuses on global changes.

The research group working on aerosol physics is examining the correlation between biosphere, aerosols, clouds and climate, and the global change research and educational unit, GLOBIOC, is a specialist unit exploring the exchange of greenhouse gases between ecosystems and the atmosphere.

Also two research groups are involved in the Nordic Centre of Excellence in Neurodegeneration (2004–2009).