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Paula Jouhten appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems

The field of the professorship is Microbial Physiology. The five-year term begins on 1 January 2022.
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Paula Jouhten (D.Sc. Tech.) has been appointed a five-year, fixed-term Associate Professor position in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems as of 1 January 2022. 

Jouhten received her doctorate from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 2009. She is currently working as a Research Team Leader at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.

‘Paula Jouhten combines both computational and experimental approaches in her research, and I consider this a very powerful combination. She has proven herself to be a successful scientist, therefore I enthusiastically look forward to her joining our School,’ says the Dean of the School of Chemical Engineering Kristiina Kruus

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