A New Doctor!

Simon successfully defended his PhD thesis on 21.09.2020. His public defence was available to view via Zoom and thankfully went ahead without any mishaps. Huge thanks go to Professor Darren Croft from the University of Exeter for agreeing to be the opponent and for a fantastic, rigorous discussion.

Other News

Virpi Lummaa and the group got awarded a grant from Kone Foundation: MigrantLives

Virpi Lummaa together with John Loehr, Outi Vesakoski, Tarmo Ketola and Miikka Voutilainen got awarded a 4-year

Apply for a postdoc position: social networks, fertility and ageing in humans

1–2 Postdoctoral Researchers to the NetResilience Consortium

Strategic Research Council selects new consortia to be funded: Prof. Virpi Lummaa as part of the NetResilience consortium

Ketola, Briga, Honkola and Lummaa published in Proc R Soc B about infectious disease risks in pre-healthcare Finland

Town population size and structuring into villages and households drive infectious disease risks in pre-healthcare Finland

New paper out by Pettay et al: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in post-war Finland

Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in post-war Finland

Simon Chapman et al. published in Scientific Reports

Offspring fertility and grandchild survival enhanced by maternal grandmothers in a pre-indu

Check the new book chapter by Danielsbacka et al.: The Resettlement and Subsequent Assimilation of Evacuees from Finnish Karelia during and after the Second World War

The consequences of forced migrations are felt globally and are faced by millions of people each year.

New paper in Nature Communications by Robert Lynch et al: Child volunteers in a women's paramilitary organization in World War II have accelerated reproductive schedules

Other News

Virpi Lummaa and the group got awarded a grant from Kone Foundation: MigrantLives

Apply for a postdoc position: social networks, fertility and ageing in humans

1–2 Postdoctoral Researchers to the NetResilience Consortium

Strategic Research Council selects new consortia to be funded: Prof. Virpi Lummaa as part of the NetResilience consortium

Ketola, Briga, Honkola and Lummaa published in Proc R Soc B about infectious disease risks in pre-healthcare Finland

Town population size and structuring into villages and households drive infectious disease risks in pre-healthcare Finland

New paper out by Pettay et al: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in post-war Finland

Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in post-war Finland

Simon Chapman et al. published in Scientific Reports

Offspring fertility and grandchild survival enhanced by maternal grandmothers in a pre-indu

Check the new book chapter by Danielsbacka et al.: The Resettlement and Subsequent Assimilation of Evacuees from Finnish Karelia during and after the Second World War

New paper in Nature Communications by Robert Lynch et al: Child volunteers in a women's paramilitary organization in World War II have accelerated reproductive schedules

Robert Lynch, Virpi Lummaa, Michael Briga, Simon N. Chapman & John Loehr, Nature Communications (2020) 11:2377.

New paper in Evolution and Human Behaviour by Pettay et al. in press

Family dynamics and age-related patterns in marriage probability

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Prof. Virpi Lummaa

Dr. Anne Hemmi