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Research networking and interaction
The unit’s collaborations are good and other groups seek its analytical expertise. The 
unit has good funding from a graduate school and is involved in one COST action. 
However, as the panel has also seen at other universities, the recruitment of 
professors, senior researchers, and postdoctoral researchers is solely from the 
University of Joensuu. Interactions and collaborations with international groups are 
not very strong.

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Recommendations
The unit should continue its interesting research and it has very good perspectives by 
combining X-ray analysis and mass spectroscopy in the study of dynamic processes 
of bio- and supramolecular interactions. With the new FTICR-MS instrument, the 
unit is extremely well placed to do frontline research. The unit must to a larger extent 
collaborate nationally and internationally with other groups in order to take full 
advantage of the unique instrument. The evaluation panel sees a large potential for 
obtaining funding for research projects that are more applied. Such funding could, 
and should, also be used to ensure a much more diverse staff by recruiting from other 
universities in Finland and abroad.