In spring 2022, the University of Helsinki will organize four conferment ceremonies: the doctoral conferment ceremony of the Faculty of Medicine as well as the master's and doctoral conferment ceremonies of the Faculty of Philosophy, the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry and the Faculty of Social Sciences.
As per tradition, the title of doctor honoris causa, the University's highest recognition, will also be awarded to several individuals in connection with the conferment ceremonies. In the ceremonies to be held this year, a total of 30 distinguished persons from around the world will be conferred as honorary doctors.
Faculty of Social Sciences to award five honorary doctorates on 20 May 2022
Jane Humphries, Professor Emeritus, All Souls College, Oxford
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Professor, Princeton
Erkki Liikanen, Master of Social Sciences, Governor of the Bank of Finland (2004-2018) and the first Finnish European Commissioner
Ann Pettifor, economist and political advisor
Laurent Thévenot, Professor, EHESS - L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Faculty of Philosophy to award seven honorary doctorates on 27 May 2022
Mika Anttonen, Master of Science (Technology), chair of the board of ST1
B. Rosemary Grant, Professor Emerita, evolutionary biologist, Princeton
Jaana Kapari-Jatta, Master of Arts, translator
Herbert W. Marsh, Professor, educational psychologist, Australian Catholic University/Oxford
Thomas Rades, Professor, Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Antti Tuuri, Master of Science (Technology), author
Gunther Uhlmann, Professor, mathematician, Washington
Faculty of Medicine to award 10 honorary doctorates on 10 June 2022
Rinaldo Bellomo, Professor of Intensive Care, University of Melbourne, and Professor of Medicine, Monash University; Director of Intensive Care Research, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, and Director of Data Analytics Research and Evaluation (DARE) Centre; Senior Research Advisor, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Monash University and Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Dorret Boomsma, Professor, Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands
Ricardo Della Coletta, Professor in Oral Pathology and Genetics, Department of Oral Diagnosis, FOP-UNICAMP at the School of Dentistry, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Brazil
Gordon H. Guyatt, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada
John Hardy, Research Director, Chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease at the Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, University College London (UCL), UK
Risto Ilmoniemi, Aalto Distinguished Professor (technical physics), Professor of Applied Physics, Head of Department, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering (NBE), Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
Trudie Roberts, Professor Emeritus of Medical Education, Leeds Institute of Medical Education, University of Leeds, UK
Ulla-Marja Urho, Master of Science (Agriculture and Forestry), chair of the board of the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa HUS 2009-2021, Helsinki, Finland
Dieter Wolke, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, and Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
Ramnik J. Xavier, Kurt Isselbacher Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Core member, Broad Institute and Director of the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology and Core faculty in the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry to award eight honorary doctorates on 17 June 2022
Dag-Ragnar Blystad, Research Professor, plant virologist, NIBIO, Norway
Ian Givens, Professor, nutritional scientist, University of Reading, UK
Annikka Hurme, Master of Food Sciences, CEO, Finland
Janet Jansson, Professor, molecular microbiologist, microbial ecologist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Robert Kozak, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, researcher of business management, University of British Columbia UBC, Canada
Daniel Murdiyarso, Professor, Principal Scientist, forest meteorologist, IPB University, Indonesia & CIFOR
Karin Schwarz, Professor, food chemist, Kiel University, Germany
Jyrki Wallin, Master of Science (Agriculture and Forestry), title of agronomi, Secretary General, Finland
