Evaluation Report Publications of the Academy of Finland 1/11

Research quality
The unit is part of the National Centre of Excellence in Computational Molecular 
Science (2006–2011) funded by the Academy of Finland. One of the professors has 
led this centre since 2009.
The research output of the unit is very good. In general, results are published in 
key international journals. The impact of the research is quite high and the unit is well 
known worldwide for its work on overtone spectroscopy and matrix isolation 
spectroscopy. The matrix isolation work of the unit received the George Pimentel 
price in 2009 for one of the professors.
The work on gas-phase chemical kinetics does not seem to have had as large an 
impact, and both the problems investigated and the techniques used are perhaps not 
competitive with the leading groups in this field. Similarly, the activities in laser 
development and breath analysis using CRD spectroscopy is quite new and the 
impact cannot yet be judged.