Evaluation Report Publications of the Academy of Finland 1/11

Research environment
The unit is well equipped in terms of access to supercomputing resources provided by 
the CSC. The unit has also its own computer cluster that allows for non-standard 
calculations and experimentation. This computer cluster is now getting fairly old. 
The unit will invest in new hardware in order to explore the potential of using 
GPUs in computational chemistry. The unit has been fairly well funded, in 
particular through the involvement in a Centre of Excellence and a graduate school. 
The unit has also been involved in various Nordic and EU-level networks and 
projects. The amount of external funding in the unit has been unevenly distributed 
between the research-active members of the unit. The recruitment of graduate and 
postgraduate students is good. The unit has the capacity to support a larger number 
of postdoctoral and senior researchers, the level of staff currently being restricted 
by the amount of available funding. Some of the senior staff members do not have 
an active research programme, and have the responsibility of teaching in different 
areas of chemistry, including experimental chemistry. Most of the administrative work 
appears to be done by the chair of the unit, and administrative support does not 
appear to be sufficient.