# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jukka-monkkonen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:59:32.593Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jukka-monkkonen"
name: "Jukka Mönkkönen"
slug: "jukka-monkkonen"
description: "Jukka Mönkkönen is a Finnish Professor of Biopharmacy and Rector of the University of Eastern Finland. Jukka Mönkkönen served as the Academic Rector of the University of Eastern Finland in 2012–2014, he was then elected Rector for a five-year term in 2015 and re-elected for another five-year period starting on 1 January 2020. The decision was taken unanimously by the board of the University of Eastern Finland on 21 May 2019. In 2023, Jukka Mönkkönen was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of SYK, the company that owns and rents properties on university campuses."
tagline: "Finnish pharmacist (PhD), professor of biopharmacy and rector of the University of Eastern Finland"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jukka_M%C3%B6nkk%C3%B6nen_30.11.2022_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-08-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           32.72
  momentum:             0.9375
  historical:           4.80126
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_M%C3%B6nkk%C3%B6nen"
    title: "Jukka Mönkkönen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "یوکا مونکونن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_M%C3%B6nkk%C3%B6nen"
    title: "Jukka Mönkkönen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мёнккёнен, Юкка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_M%C3%B6nkk%C3%B6nen"
    title: "Jukka Mönkkönen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18766429"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump