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About me

I have Professorship (Tenured) in Materials Characterization. My research areas include microstructural characterization and NDT (non-destructive testing) of various materials together with activities in material prosessing, performance and failure analysis. My special expertise area is on electron microscopy including the leadership in university-level microscopy infrastructure (Tampere Microscopy Center). I also act as Vice Dean for Research in Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences.

Responsibilities

• Professor in Materials Characterization and Head of the Materials Characterization group, Materials Science and Environmental Engineering 
• Vice Dean for Research in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences 
• Head of Tampere Microscopy Center  
• Head of the Doctoral Program in Engineering Sciences

Research unit

Materials Science and Environmental Engineering

Research career

1. Professor (tenured), Tampere University 2019-

2. Professor (tenured) (2016 - 2018) Tampere University of Technology

3. Associate professor (tenure track) (2013 - 2016) Tampere University of Technology

4. Senior Researcher (fulltime/part time, 2007 - 2013) Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Work Environment Development

5. Visiting Researcher (1999) Stockholm University, Structural Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory

6. Visiting Scholar (1996) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory

7. Researcher/Senior Researcher/Senior Research Fellow (1996 – 2013) Tampere University of Technology

About me

I am responsible of Tampere Microscopy Center (TMC) infrastructure (Head of TMC: Prof. Minnamari Vippola ) together with Dr. Turkka Salminen. In practice: coordinator and facilitator at TMC, training and guiding electron microscopy operators, materials characterization collaboration in various TAU projects and other academic and research institutes, teaching in the field of materials characterization, co-operation with national and international microscopy laboratories and networks.

You can visit Microscopy Center virtually .

Responsibilities

TMC equipment: scanning electron microscopes (Zeiss ULTRAplus with EDS and EBSD, Jeol IT-500 with EDS and low-vacuum mode), (scanning) transmission electron microscope (Jeol F-200 with EDS and EELS), TMC sample preparation methods.

Consortium principal investigator in the project "Magnetic Barkhausen Noise: From Fundamental Physics to Non-Destructive Testing, Barfume " funded by Academy of Finland.

Field of expertise

Characterization of catalysts, other nanomaterials and structures, magnetic materials, steels, composites, ceramics, coatings, bio-based materials etc. 

My publications at researchportal.tuni.fi: TUNICRIS