Postdoctoral Programme for Research Institutes

The Postdoctoral Programme for Research Institutes aims to boost research, development, and innovation (RDI) in key areas for society and business.  The Programme fosters cross-sector collaboration and promotes the national and international mobility of postdoctoral researchers. The long-term goal is to accelerate sustainable economic growth and increase productivity in Finland.

The program will hire 85 postdoctoral researchers to 12 Finnish government research institutes between 2025 and 2028. Postdoctoral researchers will drive impactful, high-level research bridging science, industry, and administration.

The programme is supported by Finland’s long-term R&D funding. The purpose of State’s R&D funding, together with R&D investments from the businesses sector, is to raise Finland’s R&D expenditure to 4% of GDP by 2030.

Postdoctoral researchers

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Lea Kopf
Lea Kopf
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.

Developing and characterizing free space and integrated SNSPD’s

Quantum mechanical features enable novel technologies which would not be possible in a classical setting.

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Charlotta Harju
Charlotta Harju
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)

The role of acceptance, agency, and foresight in the natural resources sector

The aim of my research is to produce new knowledge that supports the development of business models for new product-service solutions based on natural resources.

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Leena Kunttu
Leena Kunttu
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)

Impact evaluation for transformative policies

Rapid global changes and societal challenges—such as climate change, inequality, urbanization, and pandemics—demand new approaches to policy-making.

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Mariana Campos
Mariana Campos
Finnish Geospatial Research Institute - National Land Survey of Finland

Advancing Close-Range Land Monitoring through Multi-Modal Point Cloud Processing

The postdoctoral research advances on LiDAR data processing to address challenges of large datasets from multi-modal and multi-temporal acquisition with high spatial-temporal resolution.

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Vilma Sandström
Vilma Sandström
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)

Biodiversity footprint calculation methods

Global biodiversity loss threatens ecosystem stability, food security, and human health worldwide. To better understand and quantify human impacts on ecosystems, assessment methods for estimating biodiversity footprints have been developed.

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Hande Okutan
Hande Okutan
Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)

Groundwater and Heat Transport Processes in Deep Fault Zones

My research focuses on improving in situ characterization of fractured crystalline rocks to reduce uncertainties in flow, heat, and solute transport modeling, which is critical for safe nuclear waste disposal, geothermal energy use, and underground energy storage.

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Programme

Find out the research institutes that implement the Programme and where to find open positions.

Progress

Great start for the Programme! The first 36 postdoctoral researchers have been recruited and started their work. Half of them relocated to Finland from abroad.
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