News 2003-2004

News 2004

• Rami Korhonen was awarded with a post-doctoral position in University of Calgary for two years. His research in Human Performance Lab, headed by Professor Walter Herzog, is focused on cartilage biomechanics and modeling.
  December 20, 2004.
  
  
• Petro Julkunen graduated from the Tampere University of Technology after finishing his Master of Science Thesis on Implementation, optimization and application of fibril reinforced poroviscoelastic model for articular cartilage.
  December 17, 2004.
  
  
• Finnish Defense Forces and National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland awarded second liutenant Juha Töyräs with innovation award INNOINT 2004 for his military time research on the effects of nuclear weapons.
  November 16, 2004.
  
  
• BBC-group will give 9 poster, 1 oral and 2 poster-short talk presentations in Orthopaedic Research Society meeting Washington, 20-23 Feb. 2005. BBC-members are co-authors also in 2 poster and 1 oral presentations.
  October 19, 2004
  
  
• Jukka Jurvelin, the head of BBC-group, was nominated as a Professor of Medical Physics and Engineering at the University of Kuopio.
  October 14, 2004
  
  
• Mikko Hakulinen's family got a new member. Healthy boy: 53 cm & 3790 g. Congrats to Hanna and Mikko!
  September 25, 2004
  
  
• Peter van den Broek from the Eindhoven University of Technology (Holland) is working in BBC-laboratory between August-December 2004.
  August 1, 2004
  
  
• Docent Juha Töyräs, Ph.D, was nominated to act as the vice-head of the BBC-group.
  June, 2004
  
  
• Jukka Jurvelin, the head of BBC-group, was elected as the vice-dean at the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio. May, 2004
  
  
• Juha Töyräs was nominated as a Docent of Medical Physics (Biomechanics) at the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio.
  April, 2004
  
  
• Juha Töyräs was awarded as the dux of the Finnish reserve officer's school course Nr. 223. Juha continues his military service at the Finnish Defence Forces Technical Research Center.
  January, 2004
  
  

News 2003

• Public defence of Rami Korhonen's doctoral thesis at December 5, 2003, University of Kuopio, Snellmania, L22. Opponent is Professor Michael Buschmann from the École Polytechnique Montréal, Canada.
  December 5, 2003
  
  
• Miika Nieminen begins his work as an assistant physicist at Department of Radiology, Oulu University Hospital
  December 1, 2003
  
  
• Mikko Hakulinen is working in Erasmus University Rotterdam on 10-19 November 2003 (Harrie Weinans' research lab)
  November 10, 2003
  
  
• Pictures from the public defense and karonkka-party of Mikko Laasanen. Research director Thomas M Quinn, PhD, from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, acted as an opponent. Title of Mikko's thesis was "Development and Validation of Mechano-Acoustic Techniques and Instrument for Evaluation of Articular Cartilage".
  November 4, 2003
  
  
• BBC-group will give 9 poster and 2 oral presentations in the Orthopaedic Research Society-meeting 2004.
  October 24, 2003
  
  
• Miika Nieminen returns from his postdoctoral period at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
  October 23, 2003
  
  
• Senior researcher Juha Töyräs begins his military service at the age of 28
  July 14, 2003
  
  
• Perkins prize for the best paper in Medical Engineering & Physics in 2002 to Rami Korhonen
  June 4, 2003
  
  
• Best Master's graduate award to M Laasanen (Finnish Soc. Med.Phys & Med.Eng).
  January 9, 2003