Research at TUCS
The research in TUCS is currently focusing on four TUCS Research Programmes:
- COM3 – Combinatorics, Complex Systems and Computability
- BioHealth – From Computational Biology and Medical Informatics to Health and Wellbeing
- RITES – Resilient IT Infrastructures
- TISRA – Turku Information Systems Research Alliance
TUCS boasts a long history of high-level achievements of its affiliated researchers, in terms of articles in high-level journals and conferences, high number of citations, invitations to speak in the most important conferences in the field, and memberships in editorial boards of many high-level international journals. TUCS has been a Center of Excellence of Research of the Academy of Finland in the very first round of such centers in Finland, 1995-1999. A unit of TUCS, the Centre for Reliable Software Technology (CREST), has also been a Center of Excellence during 2002-2007. Two Academy Professors, as well as three FIDIPRO professors have been / are affiliated with TUCS. TUCS is hosting the research activity of Academician Arto Salomaa.
TUCS is a partner in several international research and education networks, including the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the European Educational Forum (EEF).
TUCS in numbers
- 4 research programmes
- 17 research units
- More than 100 doctoral students
- More than 60 supervisors
- More than 140 doctoral graduates
- More than 1000 research technical reports
- More than 90 edited research volumes