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The 91���� has appointed new Deans for its faculties for a term of office stating at the beginning of 2022.

Professor Lasse Peltonen has seen the causes and consequences of environmental conflicts both as a researcher and as a mediator. The roles are different, but both are needed to understand conflicts and to find solutions to them.

Professor Matthieu Roussey currently leads the university’s Integrated Optics Group. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the European Optical Society and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of European Optical Society.

Researchers can now investigate individual leukaemia cells to find out what makes them resistant to treatment. “Single-cell technologies provide an immense amount of new information on the diversity of cancer cells,” says Merja Heinäniemi, Professor of Computational Biomedicine.

Alongside the remembering of heroes, nations must look at their past with a critical eye in a way that makes minority voices heard, says Olga Davydova-Minguet, Professor of Russian and Border Studies.

Ari Muhonen, Licentiate of Science (Technology), 58, has been appointed as the new Director of the 91���� Library. Muhonen currently works as the Director of the Open Science Centre at the University of Jyväskylä.

In the health and social services reform, a good manager knows how to connect different pieces and hold them together.

Research and clinical work with patients generate so much imaging data that their efficient use is impossible without image analysis methods that are based on artificial intelligence. A new image analysis centre to be set up in Kuopio will provide support for patient care as well as for companies and research groups whose work involves imaging.

According to Professor of Speech Technology Tomi Kinnunen, the role of machine learning and data will grow in all sectors in the future.

The next UN Climate Conference will be held in Glasgow in 2021, and all participating countries are asked to increase their ambition in climate change mitigation.