Topic: research

Randel Kreitsberg, Associate Professor in Ecotoxicology at the Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, was recently elected to the board of the Estonian Society of Toxicology.

This autumn, doctoral researchers of the University of Tartu will again have the opportunity to participate in the three-minute thesis competition. The competition will be held on 21 October in the conference hall of the University of Tartu Library.

Recently defended PhD dissertations at the Chair of Entomology

On 23 May 2025, Minister of Education and Research Kristina Kallas approved the results of the external evaluation of Estonian research and development. The University of Tartu was the only institution in Estonia to receive a positive evaluation in all six fields: natural sciences, engineering and technology, medical and health sciences, agriculture and veterinary sciences, social sciences, and humanities and the arts.

Doctoral studies are a part of the career path, giving you the knowledge and future skills needed to become a top specialist or manager.

The registration for three-minute thesis competition ends on 19 September.

International awareness of influential research by scientists from the University of Tartu has increased significantly over the last 100 years, as reflected in the number of studies whose results have been published in the pre-eminent magazines Nature and Science.