About me
I completed my BSc and MSc studies in Materials Science in 2004. In my PhD, I spent a lot of time behind the microscope studying the effects of dynamic loading on the microstructures of advanced multiphase steels. For me the most interesting part of dynamic material behavior is to explain why the material behavior is what we observe in our experiments. I am very much interested in solving practical problems, but I find great satisfaction when I can focus my attention on a challenging problem dealing with dislocation dynamics, stacking fault energy, or phase transformations. I have been at Tampere University since 2000, and since then I have designed and built numerous testing equipment for the testing of industrial material processes and for academic basic research. For quite some time, the work done in our group has focused in digital image analysis and infrared imaging. These methods allow careful evaluation of the thermomechanical response of the material, and meticulous studies of, for example, the effects of adiabatic heating on metal plasticity and fracture. Previously I have worked at The Ohio State University (Go Buckeyes!) with professor Amos Gilat, and also visited also Purdue University for a short period of time in the lab of professor Wayne Chen. In 2016, I was elected to the Governing Board of the DYMAT association. At the same year I also started a two year period as an Associate Technical Editor of the Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials. In the near future, we hope to focus our attention to the utilization of our unique possibility to carry out dynamic experiments at different length scales, and perhaps, be able to bridge the gap in our understanding of how the microscopic material behavior connects with the larger macroscopic behavior. Our goal is to do less experiments, but to analyze the results more carefully.
Picture courtesy of Sinikka Makkonen.
