Topic: research

Satish Narayana Srirama worked at the University of Tartu for 11 years, from 2009 to 2020, first as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a lead researcher in big data.

A new scientific paper co-authored by University of Tartu Associate Professor Jaan Aru offers a new perspective: digital environments may primarily reshape how valuable we perceive cognitive effort to be.

The 17th biennial International Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems (Baltic DB&IS 2026) took place in Tartu, Estonia, from the 28th of June to the 1st of July 2026.

Academy members Jaak Vilo (bioinformatics) and Martin Zobel (ecology) have been elected Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Satish Narayana Srirama is connected to University of Tartu as a visiting professor and honorary head of he Mobile & Cloud Lab. Read the interview with him.

Twelve interdisciplinary doctoral positions will be created at the University of Tartu to explore potential applications of artificial intelligence, including, for example, addressing mental health issues, reducing food waste, assessing the overall impact of spatial planning, and facilitating sign language interpreting.

Researchers showed that large language models can identify, with high accuracy, why patients stop using antidiabetic medications or statins, based on doctors’ electronic clinical notes.

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.

Led by University of Tartu researchers, the largest and most comprehensive study to date has been completed on how genetic differences between individuals influence metabolism.

On 13 May, the Estonian Doctoral School – a joint initiative of all Estonian universities – celebrates European Doctoral Day, an occasion that invites discussion on the value of doctoral studies.