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.