Evaluation Report Publications of the Academy of Finland 1/11

Research environment
The unit’s research environment is excellent. It has extensive equipment, with nine 
ALD units. Technical support is limited, with students carrying out most of the 
maintenance. This has advantages in that the students learn the fundamental principles 
of the experimental equipment they use in the graduate studies. More conventional 
equipment (NMR, MS) is shared in the department as a whole, but access is not a 
problem. The acquisition of equipment has been considerably assisted by a policy of 
allowing groups to retain a proportion of the overheads on the grants raised. The level 
of funding is in general high, and only the salaries of tenured staff are paid from the 
budget. There is a good supply of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.