CWRU Mathematics Professor Erkki Somersalo will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Eastern Finland

CWRU Mathematics Professor Erkki Somersalo will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Eastern Finland, to be conferred on June 10, 2022:

https://www.uef.fi/en/honorary-doctors-at-the-university-of-eastern-finland-2022

Prof. Somersalo’s research focuses on computational inverse problems and Bayesian statistical methods, in particular those related to brain functions.The award committee cited Professor Somersalo’s long-standing support for the Inverse Problems Group at the Kuopio Campus as instrumental in its becoming a leading research group in many fields of computational inverse problems, especially in impedance tomography. He has also supported the emergence of successful spin-off companies.

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