Contact information for the Department of Chemistry

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Head of the Department

1st Vice-Head of the Department (Deputy Head)

2nd Vice-Head of the Department (Area of responsibility: teaching)

Research groups

Biomolecular chemistry (Filip Ekholm)
Synthesis and analysis of natural compounds and their derivatives (Petri Heinonen)
Synthesis, catalysis and mechanistic studies (Juho Helaja)
Chemistry of circular economy (Timo Leskinen)

HelsinkiALD (Mikko Ritala, Matti Putkonen, Miika Mattinen, Marianna Kemell, Miia Mäntymäki, Marko Vehkamäki, Timo Hatanpää, Martin Nieger)
Catalysis and green chemistry – Catlab (Timo Repo, Petra Vasko, Martin Nieger)
CamargoLab (Pedro Camargo)
Chemical crystallography (Martin Nieger)

Laser spectroscopy (Markku Vainio)
Atmospheric computational chemistry (Theo Kurtén)
Trace gas analysis (Markus Metsälä)
Reaction kinetics (Arkke Eskola)
Radical aerosol physical chemistry (Matti Rissanen)
Molecular level atmospheric science (Nanna Myllys)

Radionuclide reaction and fate (Gareth Law)
Nuclear waste disposal (Juuso Sammaljärvi)
Tracers in molecular imaging (Mirkka Sarparanta)
Radioecology (Susanna Salminen-Paatero, Jussi Paatero)

Environmental bioanalytical research (Susanne Wiedmer)
Environmental analytical chemistry (Kari Hartonen)

Polymers and colloids (Robert Luxenhofer, Vladimir Aseyev, Sami Hietala)

Science and chemistry education collaboration (Maija Aksela, Johannes Pernaa, Outi Haatainen)

VERIFIN (Hanna Hakulinen)