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My primary goal is to provide advanced tribological expertise and solutions for developing future design concepts for machine elements such as gears, bearings, and frictional joints to improve their performance, service life, and operation monitoring and diagnostics. My vision is to collaborate strongly with domestic and international universities and industrial partners who face real industrial tribology-related problems by working diligently to establish and maintain externally funded vital research projects that will provide early career toxicologists with opportunities for scientific growth, networking, and career advancement. I will translate my research findings into practical products to improve the manufacturing productivity of “Made in Finland”.

Societal Interaction Council of Tampere University, member, 2019-
Faculty Council of Engineering and Natural Sciences, member, 2019-
Community expert group on interaction and communications, member, 2022-
Tribologia - Finnish Journal of Tribology, editor, 2012-
Finnish Society for Tribology, board member, 2014-
Organiziner of the annual TWC International Wear Seminar 2009-

 I have over 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles and about 70 other scientific publications, including conference papers with h-index 22 (Scopus). 

Key publications:

Valtonen, K., Ojala, N., Haiko, O., Kuokkala, V.-T. Comparison of various high-stress wear conditions and wear performance of martensitic steels, Wear 426–427:3-13(2019).

Chintha, A.R., Valtonen, K. Kuokkala, V.-T., Kundu, S. Peet, M., Bhadeshia, H.K.D.H. Role of fracture toughness in impact-abrasion wear, Wear 428–429:430-437(2019).

Valtonen, K., Ratia, V., Ramakrihnan, K.R., Apostol, M., Terva, J., Kuokkala, V.-T., Impact wear and mechanical behavior of steels in subzero conditions. Tribology International 129:476-493(2019). 

Valtonen, K., Keltamäki, K., Kuokkala, V.-T., High-stress abrasion of wear resistant steels in the cutting edges of loader buckets, Tribology International 119: 707–720(2018).

Valtonen, K., Ratia, V., Ojala, N., Kuokkala, V.-T., Comparison of laboratory wear test results with the in-service performance of cutting edges of loader buckets, Wear 388-389:93-100(2017).

Ojala, N., Valtonen, K., Minkkinen, J. & Kuokkala, V.-T. Edge effect in high speed slurry erosion wear tests of steels and elastomers, Wear 388-389:126-135(2017).

Ojala N., Valtonen K., Antikainen, A., Kemppainen, A., Minkkinen, J., Oja, O., Kuokkala V.-T. Wear performance of quenched wear resistant steels in abrasive slurry erosion, Wear 354-355:21-31(2016).

Oksanen, V., Valtonen, K., Andersson, P., Vaajoki, A., Laukkanen, A., Holmberg, K. & Kuokkala, V. T. 2015. Comparison of laboratory rolling-sliding wear tests with in-service wear of nodular cast iron rollers against wire ropes, Wear 340-341:73-81(2015).

Lindroos, M., Valtonen, K., Laukkanen, A., Holmberg, K., Kuokkala, V-T., Kemppainen, A., Wear behavior and work hardening of high strength steels in high stress abrasion, Wear 322-323:32-40(2015).

Ojala, N., Valtonen K., Heino V., Kallio M., Aaltonen J., Siitonen P. & Kuokkala, V.-T., Effects of composition and microstructure on abrasive wear performance of quenched wear resistant steels, Wear 317(1–2): 225–232(2014).

Ojala, N., Valtonen, K., Kivikytö-Reponen, P., Vuorinen, P., Siitonen, P. & Kuokkala, V.-T., The effect of test parameters on large particle high-speed slurry erosion testing, Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces 8(2):98-104(2014).

Ratia, V., Valtonen, K., Kemppainen, A., Vippola, M., Kuokkala, V.-T., High-Stress Abrasion and Impact-Abrasion Testing of Wear Resistant Steels, Tribology Online 8(2):152-161(2013).

• Engineering Materials Science
• Materials testing and characterization
• Tribology and wear testing
• Tampere Wear Center

1. Tampere University: Member in TAU Science council, Steering group member in PROFI6 Tampere Imaging Research Platform and Steering group member in Tampere Health project
2. Board member of SCANDEM Nordic Microscopy Society since 2012 
3. Earlier in Academy of Finland: Member of the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering (2019-21) and Member if The Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee (FIRI Committee 2019-22)

International Deep Drawing Research Group (IDDRG), Executive committee 2011 -

Heat Treatment and Forging Branch Group member 2014 -

Aluminium Product Branch Group member 2017 -

National standardization committee K 900 “Steels and mechanical testing”, member

finddrg member 2014 -

Finnish Association of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, board member 2016 – 2019

Curtze, S., Kuokkala, V-T., Hokka, M., Peura, P., “Deformation Behavior of TRIP and DP Steels in Tension at Different Temperatures over a Wide Range of Strain Rates”, Materials Science and En-gineering A. Vol. 507, no. 1-2, p124-131 (2009) DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2008.11.050

Nyyssönen, T., Isakov, M., Peura, P. and Kuokkala V.-T.,”Iterative Determination of the Orientation Relationship Between Austenite and Martensite/Bainite from a Large Amount of Grain Pair Misorientations”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, Vol. 47, No. 6, 2016, p. 2587-2590

Järvinen, H., Isakov, M., Nyyssönen, T., Järvenpää, M., Peura, P., “The effect of initial microstructure on the final properties of press hardened 22MnB5 steels”, Materials Science & Engineering A 676, p. 109–120, 2016

Nyyssönen, T., Peura, P., Kuokkala, V.-T., “Crystallography, Morphology and Martensite Transformation of Prior Austenite in Intercritically Annealed High-Aluminium Steel”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 49 (12), pp. 6426-6441, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-018-4904-9

Patnamsetty, M., Somani, M.C., Ghosh, S., Ahmed, S., Peura, P., "Processing map for controlling microstructure and unraveling various deformation mechanisms during hot working of CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloy", Materials Science and Engineering: A, VOL 793, 139840, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2020.139840.