People

Our group consist of typically 10-15 people including professors, laboratory engineers, university lecturers, university researchers, Ph.D. students and M.Sc. students. We do a large amount of interdisciplinary and collaborational research with people from various backgrounds, i.e. biology, chemistry, health sciences, archaeology to name a few.
Simo Huotari

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Professor, PhD. Head of Department of Physics
Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

Office: C226 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • X-ray spectroscopies
  • Inelastic x-ray scattering
  • New x-ray methods for materials studies
René Bes

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University researcher, Ph.D.

Office: B220 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES), Resonant Inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) and related techniques such as HERFD-XAS
  • Positron annihilation spectroscopy (PALS)
  • Nuclear materials including nuclear fuel and actinide physico-chemistry in general
  • Instrumental development such as laboratory scale XAS/XES spectrometer
  • Application and development of advanced X-ray spectroscopies
Heikki Suhonen

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Laboratory engineer, Ph.D. (Head of the group)

Office: B218A (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • X-ray microscopy

  • X-ray phase contrast imaging

     
Kirsi Svedström

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University lecturer, Ph.D. (Vice-head of the group)

Office: B221 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • Small and wide angle x-ray scattering
  • Polymeric and nanomaterials
  • Thin films and interfaces
Ryan Trevorah

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Postdoctoral researcher, Ph.D.

Office: B217 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • Grazing incidence x-ray diffraction and x-ray reflectivity
  • Thin films and interfaces
  • X-ray absorption fine structure and related synchrotron techniques
Henrik Mäkinen

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Postdoctoral researcher, Ph.D.

Office: B225 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • X-ray and other types of imaging
  • Medical and biological physics
  • Computer science
Antti-Jussi Kallio

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Postdoctoral researcher, Ph.D.

Office: B218B (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • Solid-matter properties following extreme excitation
  • X-ray spectroscopy
  • Inelastic x-ray scattering
Seppo Hornytzkyj

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Doctoral researcher

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Research interests

  • Cultural heritage
Jaana Laine

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Doctoral researcher, M.Sc.

Office: B222 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • Materials characterization
  • Barrier properties of fiber based 3D molds
Vesa-Matti Leino

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Doctoral researcher, M.Sc.

Office: B225 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • X-ray microtomography
  • Bioactive glasses
  • Bone microstructure
Sai Li

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Doctoral researcher, M.Sc.

Office: B222 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • Materials characterization
  • Industrial  materials
  • Wide- and small angle x-ray scattering
Marion Hernandez

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Doctoral researcher, M.Sc.

Office: B223 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • Nuclear materials including nuclear fuels
  • X-ray emission spectroscopy and related techniques
Simon Orlat

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Doctoral researcher, M.Sc.

Office: B224 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
  • Nuclear materials including nuclear fuel physico-chemistry
  • Instrumental development
Noora Suomalainen

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Doctoral researcher, M.Sc.

Office: B218B (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
  • Synchrotrons
  • High entropy alloys
Muhammad Hamza Imtiaz

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Research assistant

Office: B218B (Physicum building)
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Tuuli Peltola

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Research assistant

Office: B223 (Physicum building)
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Research interests

  • Nuclear materials including nuclear fuels
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy
  • Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy
Jefina Koivuniemi

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Research assistant

Office: B222 (Physicum building)
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Nadia Tanzum

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Research assistant

Office: B224 (Physicum building)
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Previous members

Some of our alumni, in alphabetical order

  • Patrik Ahvenainen ()
  • Merja Blomberg ()
  • Szabolcs Galambosi (university lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsnki) ()
  • Hanna Help (senior researcher, Finnish Food Authority) ()
  • Ari-Pekka Honkanen, hospital physicist, Helsinki University Central Hospital ()
  • Keijo Hämäläinen (Rector of the Tampere University) ()
  • Aleksi Mattila (project manager at STUK, Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland)
  • Kim Nygård (beamline scientist in charge, For-MAX beamline at MAX-IV Laboratory)
  • Paavo Penttilä (professor of physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland) ()
  • Kari Ruotsalainen (beamline scientist, ID20 at ESRF)
  • Christoph Sahle (beamline scientist in charge, ID20 at ESRF) ()
  • Ritva Serimaa
  • Pekka Suortti
  • Mira Viljanen (beamline scientist, For-MAX beamline at MAX-IV Laboratory) ()
Collaborators

National

, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki
, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki
, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki
, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki
, Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University
, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University

International research groups

CEA Marcoule, France

International large-scale infrastructures

, Grenoble, France
, Lund, Sweden
, France
, Germany