Center for Photonics Sciences

Center for Photonics Sciences (Formerly Institute of Photonics) combines all research and education in optics and photonics at the University of Eastern Finland. Our multidiscipline center is a unique collection of professionals in biology, chemistry, information technology, physics and applied physics, with the roots of photonics being the major research field in physics starting over 50 years ago, when the University of Joensuu was founded. Today Center for Photonics Sciences forms a world’s top-notch research environment. Following university institutions are a part of Center for Photonics Sciences: - Department of Physics and Mathematics - School of Computing - Department of Chemistry - Department of Environmental and biological sciences - Department of Technical Physics Center for Photonics Sciences is core for Photonics Research Community (RC) at UEF, which earned the highest score in the international evaluation of research activities at the University of Eastern Finland 2015-2018 and 2019-2022, and which now belongs to the highest category of “International top-level research” in UEF Strategy 2030. Center for Photonics Sciences also belongs to the Photonics Research and Innovation (PREIN) Flagship and to the Finnish National Infrastructure for Light-Based Technologies (FinnLight) on the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap (FIRI).