People

Helsinki Eye Lab is headed by Chief Physician Jukka Moilanen in close collaboration with Professor Ilpo Vattulainen and Chief Physician Niko Setälä.

In addition to these senior members, the team currently includes two post-doctoral researchers, three doctoral students, and one undergraduate student. The combined expertise of the team in clinical research and basic science allows for unique approaches in ophthalmological research.

Jukka Moilanen

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Chief Physician Jukka Moilanen

Eye Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital

Haartmaninkatu 4 C

P.O. Box 220, FI-000290 HUS, Finland

E-mail: Firstname.Surname@hus.fi

Research Interests

  • Tear film and ocular surface diseases
  • Corneal biomechanics
  • Refraction, aberrations and contrast sensitivity
Ilpo Vattulainen

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Professor Ilpo Vattulainen

Department of Physics, University of Helsinki 

P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland

Office: C119 (Exactum building)

E-mail: Firstname.Surname@helsinki.fi

Website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/biophysics

Research Interests

  • Biological Physics, Biophysics & Soft Matter
  • Membrane Biophysics & Lipid-Protein Interactions
  • Signaling and Protein Dynamics
  • Lipoproteins, Transfer Proteins & Trafficking
  • Drug-Membrane & Drug-Receptor Interactions
  • Scientific Computing & Computational Sciences
Niko Setälä

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Chief Physician Niko Setälä

Eye Unit, Central Finland Health Care District

Keskussairaalantie 19

FI-40620,  Jyväskylä, Finland

E-mail: firstname.surname@ksshp.fi

Riku Paananen

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Riku Paananen, Ph.D.

Ophthalmology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital

Haartmaninkatu 8, FI-00290 Helsinki, Finland

Office: B416a (Biomedicum Helsinki 1)

E-mail: firstname.o.surname@helsinki.com

Research Interests

  • Tear film lipid layer structure and function
  • Langmuir monolayers
  • Molecular dynamics simulations
Alexandra Robciuc

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Alexandra Robciuc, Ph.D.

Ophthalmology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital

Haartmaninkatu 8, FI-00290 Helsinki, Finland

Office: B416a (Biomedicum Helsinki 1)

E-mail: firstname.surname@gmail.com

Research Interests

  • Dry eye disease and corneal epithelium response to hyperosmolarity
  • Physiology of corneal epithelium and its interactions with tear fluid
  • Role of sphingolipids in ocular surface inflammation
Matti Javanainen

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Matti Javanainen, Ph.D.

Department of Physics, University of Helsinki 

P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland

Office: C116 (Exactum building)

E-mail: Firstname.Surname@helsinki.fi

Research interests

  • Lateral dynamics of lipids and membrane proteins
  • Structure of lipid bilayers and monolayers
Tuomo Viitaja

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Tuomo Viitaja (Ph.D. student)

Ophthalmology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital

Haartmaninkatu 8, FI-00290 Helsinki, Finland

Office: B416a (Biomedicum Helsinki 1)

Research Interests

  • Organic synthesis
  • Role of O-acyl-omega-hydroxy fatty acids in the tear film lipid layer
Collaborators

The multidisciplinary approach to ophthalmology promoted by Helsinki Eye Lab involves numerous collaboration projects with groups specialized in physics, chemistry, and biomedicine. Some of our recent collaborators are: