Honorary Doctors

The Faculty can grant the title of honorary doctor and the related insignia to a person who is considered to be deserving of such an acknowledgement based on their scientific or cultural achievements or on their merits in promoting science, arts or culture.

Honorary Doctors 2023

Faculty of Medicine

Honorary Doctors in Medicine

Chief Physician Hanna Nohynek, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Professor Emeritus, Research Director Mikael Knip, University of Helsinki

Professor of Physiology Manuel Tena-Sempere, University of Córdoba, Spain

Honorary Doctor in Dentistry

Professor Emeritus Björn Klinge, Karolinska Institutet and Malmö University, Sweden

Honorary Doctor in Health Science

Professor Adelaida Zabalegui Yárnoz, the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona, Spain

Honorary Doctors 2022

Faculty of Humanities

Professor John McLeod, University of Leeds

Faculty of Science

Professor Adil Bagirov, Federation University Australia
Environmental influencer Saara Kankaanrinta

Faculty of Medicine

Professor Beat Imhof, University of Geneva
Professor Gabriele Meyer, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

School of Economics

Professor Barbara Czarniawska, University of Gothenburg
Secretary-General of GRLI, Professor Anders Aspling

Faculty of Law 

Professor David Whyte, Queen Mary University of London

Faculty of Social Sciences

Professor Anette Fasang, Humboldt University of Berlin
Professor James Hawdon, Virginia Tech

Faculty of Education

Professor Martin Thrupp, University of Waikato
Director General of International Baccalaureate Organization Olli-Pekka Heinonen

Faculty of Technology

Professor Johanna Myllyharju, University of Oulu
Kiinteistöneuvos (Finnish honorary title) Heikki Vaiste.

Honorary Doctors 2021

Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Technology

Chair of Kone Foundation Board of Trustees Hanna Nurminen

Professor Laura A. Janda, the Arctic University of Norway

Professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia

Professor Nora Berrah, University of Connecticut

Managing Director Jan Meyer
 

Faculty of Medicine

Professor Uwe Ewald, Uppsala University

Journalist Tiina Merikanto


School of Economics

Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Standford University

Chairman of the Board of Directions Panu Routila
 

Faculty of Law

Deputy Parliamentary Ombudsman Maija Sakslin

President of the Supreme Administrative Court Kari Kuusiniemi
 

Faculty of Social Sciences

Professor Robert E. Goodin, Australian National University

Professor of Practice Riitta Monto
 

Faculty of Education

Professor Lisbeth Lundahl, Umeå University

Professor Emeritus Jouni Välijärvi, University of Jyväskylä

Honorary Doctors 2017

Faculty of Humanities

Emeritus Professor Kenneth Hyltenstam, Stockholm UniversitySweden

 

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Professor Irina Artsimovitch, Ohio State University, USA
Professor Bernard De Baets, Ghent University, Belgium

 

Faculty of Medicine

Chief Executive Officer Makoto Nakao, GC Corporation, Japan

Professor Irving Weissman, Stanford University, USA

 

School of Economics

Emeritus Professor James Allen Dator, University of Hawaii, USA

Chief Executive Officer​ Ilpo Korhonen, Valmet Automotive Oy

 

Faculty of Law

Professor Olli Mäenpää, University of Helsinki

 

Faculty of Social Sciences

Professor Matti Lehtihalmes, University of Oulu
Emerita Professor Susan Mendus, University of York, United Kingdom

 

Faculty of Education

Emeritus Professor Ari Antikainen, University of Eastern Finland

Professor Anastasia Efklides, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Honorary Doctors 2015

 The Faculty of Humanities

 

Emeritus Professor Manfred Frank

University of Tübingen, Germany

 

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

 

Professor Makoto Komiyama

Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance,

University of Tsukuba, Japan

 

Professor Gunter Schneider

Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics,

Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

 

Faculty of Medicine

 

Professor Ele Ferrannini

National Research Council,

University of Pisa, Italy

 

Professor W. Allan Walker

Harvard Medical School, USA

 

School of Economics

 

Professor Jörg Becker

University of Münster, Germany

 

Chief of Defence, General Jarmo Lindberg

 

Faculty of Law

 

President of the Supreme Court Pauliine Koskelo

 

Faculty of Social Sciences

 

Emeritus professor Marinus Voeten

Behavioral Science Institute,

Radbould University Nijmegen, Netherlands

 

Professor Ole Wæver

Department of Political Science,

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Faculty of Education

 

Emerita Professor Sirkka Ahonen

University of Helsinki

 

Professor Johann Gruber

University of Regensburg, Germany

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