Short CV

Current positions:

• Professor, Tampere University, Finland, March 2021 - 

• Head of Computational Physics Laboratory,  Tampere University, Finland, January 2024 - 

• Leader of Complex Systems research group, Tampere University, Finland, September 2018 - 

Previous positions:

• Associate Professor (tenure track), Computational Physics Laboratory, Tampere University, Finland, September 2018 - March 2021

• Project leader, Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) Theory Programme project Domain Wall Dynamics, Helsinki, Finland, January 2014 - 2019

• Academy Research Fellow, Complex Systems and Materials group, COMP Centre of Excellence, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, September September 2013 - August 2018.

• Invited visiting researcher, CNRS, École normale supérieure de Lyon, France, October 9 - November 7, 2015

• Academy of Finland Postdoctoral researcher, Complex Systems and Materials group, COMP Centre of Excellence, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, January 2011 - August 2013 

• Postdoctoral researcher, Complexity in Materials group, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy, February 2009 - December 2010

• Doctoral student, Complex Systems and Materials (CSM) group, COMP Centre of Excellence, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, May 2004 - January 2009

Degrees:

• Doctor of Science (Tech.), Helsinki University of Technology, instructor Prof. Mikko Alava, October 2008

• Master of Science, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, April 2004

Publications:

• 93 published/accepted articles in refereed international journals:

  • 1 in Science Advances

  • 2 in Nature Communications 

  • 12 in Physical Review Letters (11 Letters and 1 Reply to a Comment)

  • 1 in Materials & Design

  • 1 in Acta Materialia

  • 7 in Scientific Reports

  • 1 in Physical Review Research (Letter)

  • 1 in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

  • 1 in APL Materials

  • 2 in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

  • 2 in Applied Physics Letters 

  • 6 in Physical Review Materials

  • 27 in Physical Review B/E, including one Rapid Communication

  • 1 in Philosophical Transactions A

  • 1 in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

  • 4 in Journal of Materials Science: Materials Theory, including one Editorial

  • 9 in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, including one Letter

  • 1 in Ultramicroscopy

  • 1 in Tellus B: Chemical & Physical Meteorology

  • 1 in European Physical Journal Special Topics

  • 1 in European Physical Journal Plus

  • 4 in European Physical Journal B

  • 3 in Journal of Applied Physics

  • 3 in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 

• Doctoral thesis "Avalanche dynamics in driven systems: from plastic deformation to fluid invasion", accepted with distinction (Helsinki University of Technology, 2008)

• M.Sc. thesis "Surface criticality in the random field Ising model" (University of Helsinki, 2004, unpublished)

Teaching:

• Lecturer of the course FYS.424 Statistical Physics 2, 5 ECTS credits, spring 2022, Tampere University, Finland.

• Lecturer of the course FYS.222 Statistinen fysiikka, 5 ECTS credits, fall 2021, Tampere University, Finland.

• Lecturer of the course FYS-1371 Statistical Physics, 5 ECTS credits, spring 2021, Tampere University, Finland.

• Lecturer of the course FYS-1371 Statistinen fysiikka, 5 ECTS credits, fall 2020, Tampere University, Finland.

• Lecturer of the course FYS-4606 Statistical Physics 2, 5 ECTS credits, spring 2020, Tampere University, Finland.

• Lecturer of the second half of the course PHYS-C0220 Termodynamiikka ja statistinen fysiikka (in Finnish, thermodynamics and statistical physics), 5 ECTS credits, spring 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, Aalto University, Finland

• Lecturer of the first half of the course PHYS-E0412 Computational Physics, 5 ECTS credits, spring 2017, Aalto University, Finland

• Lecturer of the course Tfy-0.1064 Fysiikka 4 (in Finnish, electromagnetism and wave motion), 5 ECTS credits, spring 2013, Aalto University, Finland

Other:

• Member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports.

• Member of the Editorial Board of Materials Theory.

• Board member of the Finnish Physical Society (FPS).

• Deputy board member of Helsinki Insititute of Physics (HIP).

• Referee for Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Communications Physics, Nanoscale, Scientific Reports, Acta Materialia, Physical Review B/E, EPL, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Physica A/C, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Soft Matter, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Materials...