Evaluation Report Publications of the Academy of Finland 1/11

4.19 University of Helsinki, Organic Chemistry
Overview
The Laboratory of Organic Chemistry is part of the UH Department of Chemistry. 
The average personnel resources have been three FTE professors (four in the second 
half of the evaluation period), eight senior and postdoctoral researchers and 15 FTE 
graduate students. The total yearly average research staff FTE of the unit was about 27. 
Financial support was with a close on 1:1 proportion of core to external funding, 
the external sources being the Academy of Finland (1/3), Tekes (1/3) and industry 
(1/3). EU funding accounts for only a minor part of the funding. The unit participates 
in several national graduate schools. 
The unit is involved in teaching basic and advanced courses at BSc and MSc levels; 
all seniors and PhD students participate in this teaching to some extent (PhD students 
at the unit to about 25%). The unit is active in Erasmus student exchange 
programmes. Examinations of MScs in the evaluation period was at 15 a year and 
PhDs at three a year. Some PhD students have been external (e.g. VTT), with no time 
spent at the unit. The administrative duties, including task as head of unit, rotate 
between the professors.