Study & Work

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Introduction

We are an integral part of the (MATRENA) and (MATRES). We provide topics and supervision of theses and advanced laboratory works. Topic examples and persons can be found below.

Summer jobs provide a chance to participate in experimental and computational studies and other tasks relevant to our research projects. Open positions are announced on the website of the . The application period is typically in January. Other research jobs as well as Doctoral researcher positions are announced on the .
Thesis and laboratory work topics

Topics are available in multiple languages.

B.Sc. thesis

Topic Instructor/Contact
Superconductivity and magnetism Simo Huotari
X-ray diffraction methods Kirsi Svedström
Properties of 2D materials (e.g. graphene, MoS2) Simo Huotari
Bio- and natural polymers Kirsi Svedström
Application of a 2D Timepix detector in spectroscopy Simo Huotari
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (nuclear energy related materials) René Bes
X-ray emission spectroscopy René Bes

M.Sc. thesis

Topic Instructor/contact
Extended EXAFS: instrument and methods development René Bes
Electronic structure of actinides : theoretical calculations René Bes
High resolution PIXE: instrumental development René Bes
MicroCT analysis of the structure of fibrous meat analogues Heikki Suhonen
Previous M.Sc. theses from our lab

2025

  • Noora Suomalainen,

2024

  • Samuel Väisänen,
  • Topi Aaltonen,

2022

  • Feliks Kivelä,
  • Ville Mäkelä,

2021

  • Ayesha Zaka,
  • Matti Mäntysaari,
  • Outi Kinnunen,

2020

  • Vesa-Matti Leino,
  • Miika Rasola,
  • Eetu Uusikylä,
  • Emmi Tikkanen,

2019

  • Emmi-Lotta Lavikainen,
  • Tommi Heikkilä,
  • Levi Keller,
  • Henrik Mäkinen,
  • Antti-Jussi Kallio,
  • Pentti Arffman,

2018

  • Mira Viljanen,
  • Shahriar Karim Saurov,

2017

  • Sami Ollikkala,