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Extension of Wihuri doctoral grant for Lauri Himanen

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Lauri Himanen receives 2nd-year doctoral funding from the Wihuri Foundation.

, PhD student of Computational Electronic Structure Theory (group leader: Patrick Rinke) and Surfaces and Interfaces at the Nanoscale (group leader: Adam Foster) in the Department of Applied Physics, is awarded Wihuri Foundation grant (2nd year) for doctoral research project "Big Data Approach to Materials Science". Many congratulations!

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