The Tenured Professors’ Installation Lectures
Aalto University celebrates its tenured professors with popular lectures by the new tenure track professors of Associate or Full level.
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Welcome to hear about Aalto University’s research on Tuesday 27 January 2015 at 14.15 at Dipoli Congress Centre.
All lectures will be held in English and are open for everyone: professors, students, faculty, staff, and the public.
The multidisciplinary lectures will be followed by a reception hosted by Tuula Teeri, the President of Aalto University.
Welcome!
Lecturers and topics:
“Design methodologies combine thought and practice”
Antti Ahlava, Full Professor
School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Architecture
“Customers as part-time employees – implications of self-service for service management”
Tomas Falk, Associate Professor
School of Business, Department of Marketing
“Co-creating innovations for sustainable development”
Minna Halme, Full Professor
School of Business, Department of Management Studies
“Pure mathematics and dirty practice”
Camilla Hollanti, Associate Professor
School of Science, Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis
“Basic neuroscience discoveries stimulate innovations and clinical applications”
Matti S. Hämäläinen, Full Professor
School of Science, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
“Business ethicists herding the sheep for the big bad wolf: European philosophical tradition and the role of applied ethics in a ripe capitalist world”
Matti Häyry, Full Professor
School of Business, Department of Management Studies
“Investors behaving badly”
Markku Kaustia, Full Professor
School of Business, Department of Finance
“Entrepreneurship and population ageing”
Teemu Kautonen, Associate Professor
School of Business, Department of Management Studies
“Electrochemistry without electrodes”
Lasse Murtomäki, Associate Professor
School of Chemical Technology, Department of Chemistry
“Enabling new functionalities through materials and microsystems integration”
Mervi Paulasto-Kröckel, Associate Professor
School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation
“Quantum perspective of novel hybrid materials”
Patrick Rinke, Associate Professor
School of Science, Department of Applied Physics
“Using nature's asymmetry: from pagodas to nanopaper”
Orlando Rojas, Full Professor
School of Chemical Technology, Department of Forest Products Technology
“Optoelectronics: from materials physics and nanosciences to consumer applications”
Markku Sopanen, Associate Professor
School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Micro and Nanosciences
“Art education: towards greater equity and diversity”
Anniina Suominen, Associate Professor
School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Art
“Uncertain superstars”
Marko Terviö, Full Professor
School of Business, Department of Economics
Professor introductions
Antti Ahlava, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Antti Ahlava (born 1967, Finland) completed his doctoral thesis on spatial and furniture design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Department of Design. Ahlava’s areas of speciality are architectural design and urban design. He has carried out research and teaching at TKK, UIAH, Aalto University, TU Wien, Aarhus Architecture School, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Yale, Harvard, UCLA, MIT, Chalmers, The University of Edinburgh, ETSAM, Keio, Tokio University, Tallinn Art Academy, TU Delft, Tongj University, Tsinghua University, and The Royal College of Art (London).
Ahlava has won prizes in the architecture competitions of Espoo Hospital (2009, with K2S Architects), Andermatt Station Area (2011), Kouvola Centre (2012), and Katara Hills, Doha, Qatar (2013). Ahlava's publications include books and articles published by Taylor & Francis, Finnish Architectural Review, Intern, Ehituskunst, Maja, and the Finnish Building Information Society.
His work has been featured in several architectural exhibitions. Antti Ahlava is also an architect and partner at Helsinki Zürich Office Ltd (helsinkizurich), located in Helsinki, Finland, and Zürich, Switzerland.
Antti Ahlava, D.A., has been appointed Professor of Emergent Design Methodologies at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture on 27 September 2013.
Tomas Falk, School of Business
Tomas Falk (born 1975, Germany) earned his Ph.D. degree (Dr. rer. pol.) in marketing at the University of Mannheim, Germany, in 2006. After his doctorate, Dr. Falk continued to work as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Mannheim. In 2010, he was appointed Professor of Consumer Behaviour and Marketing at the European Business School, Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht in Wiesbaden, Germany. In addition, Tomas Falk had been a visiting scholar at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands and at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University, USA.
Dr. Falk’s research focuses on service management issues such as customer acceptance of self-service technologies, service quality management, and recovery after service failures. He has published his work in journals such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Service Research. In 2010, the American Marketing Association awarded Dr. Falk’s work on brand productivity with the Overall Best Paper Award at its Winter Educators’ Conference.
Tomas Falk, Dr. rer. pol., has been appointed Professor of Marketing at the Aalto University School of Business on 18 November 2013.
CV Tomas Falk (pdf), publication list (pdf)
Minna Halme, School of Business
Minna Halme (born 1966, Finland) obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Tampere in 1997 and gained the best doctoral dissertation award at the university. She has been affiliated with Georgetown University (USA), the Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics at the University of Lund (Sweden) and has worked as a Senior Scientist at the Academy of Finland. She was appointed professor of corporate responsibility at the Helsinki School of Economics in 2009.
Her research focuses on inclusive innovation for poverty alleviation, business models for sustainability, and societal impacts of corporate responsibility. She has worked with a number of European research projects and headed several national ones. Her work has appeared in leading sustainability and management journals, including Ecological Economics, Journal of Management Studies, and Business Strategy and the Environment, and she has co-authored a number of international and Finnish books.
Minna Halme teaches master’s, doctoral and executive MBA courses in Finland and South Korea and in the CEMS Master’s in International Management programme. She combines societal impact with her academic work and has been an advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Global Sustainability. In October 2008, Halme received an award from the Academy of Finland for the societal impact of her research.
Minna Halme, D.Sc. (Econ.), has been appointed Professor of Organization and Management at the Aalto University School of Business on 24 February 2014.
Camilla Hollanti, School of Science
Camilla Hollanti (born 1979, Finland) received her Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Turku in 2009. Her research interests include applications of algebra and number theory to wireless communications and distributed data storage.
During 2009–2012, Hollanti worked at the University of Turku as a Principal Investigator. She joined the University of Tampere as a lecturer for the academic year 2009–2010. Since 2011, Hollanti has been with the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis at Aalto University, where she currently works as an associate professor and leads a research group on Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications. Hollanti has also carried out numerous research visits abroad.
Hollanti is a member of the Management Committee of the ESF COST Action on Random Network Coding and an editor of the AIMS Journal on Advances in Mathematics of Communications. She is also a member of the European Digital Video Broadcasting standardization consortium.
Hollanti is co-author of more than 60 publications, and she has secured four Academy of Finland grants during 2010–2014, including a FiDiPro grant. In 2014, Hollanti received the World Cultural Council Special Recognition Award.
Camilla Hollanti, Ph.D., has been appointed Professor of Mathematics at the Aalto University School of Science on 29 September 2014.
Matti S. Hämäläinen, School of Science
Matti S. Hämäläinen (born 1958, Finland) is a physicist by training and received his D.Sc. (Tech.) degree from Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) in 1989. He is Professor of Systems Neuroscience at Aalto University, director of the newly established Aalto Brain Centre, Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, and director of the MEG Core at the Martinos Center of Massachusetts General Hospital. Throughout his scientific career, his main research interest has been the source analysis of MEG and EEG and the combination of these real-time measures of brain activity with other imaging data.
Dr. Hämäläinen was a member of the core team developing whole-head neuromagnetometers at HUT in the 1980s and 1990s. He received the Innovation Prize of the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development (SITRA) in 1992 and the Finnish Engineering Prize in 1996. Together with his colleagues, he published in 1993 a seminal review article on MEG in Reviews of Modern Physics, which now has more than 2,000 citations.
His current research interests include the further development of anatomically constrained MEG/EEG source estimation methods, the combination of electromagnetic hemodynamic imaging methods, MEG/EEG studies of early brain development in infants, and frequency-domain and connectivity analysis of MEG and EEG data. Collaborating with his fellow neuroscientists and clinicians, Dr. Hämäläinen uses these methods to study brain function, both in healthy populations and in neurological and psychiatric patients.
Matti Hämäläinen, D.Sc. (Tech.), has been appointed Professor of Systems Neuroscience at the Aalto University School of Science on 18 December 2013.
Matti Häyry, School of Business
Matti Häyry (born 1956, Finland) earned his doctorate in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki in 1991. He worked in Helsinki before being appointed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kuopio in 1999. He then moved to England, where he was Professor of Moral Philosophy and Head of the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire (2001–2004) and Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy of Law at the University of Manchester (2004–2013).
Professor Häyry’s research in moral, social, and political philosophy has produced 14 books, 17 edited works, and 233 articles and book chapters. In 2007, he founded Manchester’s pioneering Doctoral Programme in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence; and during 2007–2009 he was president of the International Association of Bioethics.
Professor Häyry has been the principal investigator of eleven Academy of Finland and other Finnish projects, a co-investigator for a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award in England, and partner and co-investigator of seven European research endeavours. Matti Häyry has been a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 2005.
Matti Häyry, D.Soc.Sc., has been appointed Professor of Philosophy of Management at the Aalto University School of Business on 13 May 2013.
Markku Kaustia, School of Business
Markku Kaustia (born 1971, Finland) earned his D.Sc. (Econ.) degree in finance at the Helsinki School of Economics in 2003. Prior to this appointment, he held faculty positions at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
His research has been published in top scholarly journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, as well as in the leading practitioner journal, CFA Institute’s Financial Analysts Journal, winning the Emerald Citation of Excellence. Professor Kaustia is actively involved in training and consulting finance professionals and in developing tools to address financial illiteracy. He is a frequent speaker at investment seminars. He received the best teacher award at the Aalto University School of Business in 2014.
Markku Kaustia, D.Sc. (Econ.), has been appointed Professor in Hannes Gebhard Professor in Finance at the Aalto University School of Business on 24 February 2014.
Teemu Kautonen, School of Business
Teemu Kautonen (born 1976, Finland) earned his Bachelor’s degree (BBA) from the Helsinki School of Economics (Mikkeli) in 1998, followed by a Master’s in Entrepreneurship and Intercultural Communication from the University of Jyväskylä in 2000, and a doctorate in Business and Economics (doctor rerum oeconomicarum) from the University of Wuppertal (Germany) in 2005.
Prior to joining Aalto University, Teemu Kautonen was a professor of Enterprise and Innovation at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. Prior to that, he was an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Turku. His other past employers include the Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (Germany), the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), and the University of Vaasa.
Dr. Kautonen has authored and co-authored more than 50 journal articles and book chapters, and he holds editorial positions at leading entrepreneurship journals. He has advised national governments and the OECD on enterprise policy matters. His current research focuses on the role of trust in the financial relationships of small firms, the psychology of entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial activity in the context of ageing populations.
Teemu Kautonen, Dr. rer. oec., has been appointed Professor Entrepreneurship at the Aalto University School of Business on 19 June 2013.
Lasse Murtomäki, School of Chemical Technology
Lasse Murtomäki (born 1961, Finland) received his doctoral degree (D.Sc., Tech.) in 1992 at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Department of Process and Material Science. His research has focused in electrochemistry and applying physical chemistry to problems in drug delivery, and in particular, transport processes and electrochemistry in water-oil systems which provide a platform for biomimetic electrochemistry. He has published 85 peer-reviewed scientific papers, two chapters in edited books and one patent. He has also co-authored two textbooks, which earned the annual textbook award of HUT in 2008 and 2009.
He visited as a post-doc at the University of Valencia, Deparment of Thermodynamics (1994), the University of Limerick (1995), Department of Chemistry, and the University of Wisconsin (Madison), Department of Chemistry (1999). He was an Academy Senior Research Fellow in 1996–2001. He has been docent of physical pharmacy at the University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio) since 2009, and docent of drug delivery technology at HUT (Aalto University) since 2003. Lasse Murtomäki was a group leader of physical pharmacy at the Centre for Drug Delivery at the University of Helsinki in 2008–2012.
Lasse Murtomäki, D.Sc. (Tech.), has been appointed Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Aalto University School of Chemical Technology on 16 June 2014.
Mervi Paulasto-Kröckel, School of Electrical Engineering
Mervi Paulasto-Kröckel (born 1966, Finland) earned her D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in materials science and engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland in 1995. Professor Paulasto-Kröckel is chairing Electronics integration and reliability as well as Bioadaptive technology at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering in Finland. Her current research focus is on materials and interconnect technologies for MEMS/NEMS and bioelectronics, as well as multi-material assemblies behavior under different loads and their characteristic failure modes and mechanisms.
Prior to joining Helsinki University of Technology in 2008, Paulasto-Kröckel worked over 12 years in the semiconductor industry in various R&D and management positions. She was a Staff Principal Engineer at Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector in Munich. In 2004 Paulasto-Kröckel joined Infineon Technologies where she was Director Package Development responsible for semiconductor assembly and interconnect development for automotive products worldwide.
Professor Paulasto-Kröckel has over 70 international publications in fields of microelectronics packaging and interfacial compatibility of dissimilar materials. She is a member of the board of governors of IEEE CPMT (Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society) and the Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences.
Mervi Paulasto-Kröckel, D.Sc. (Tech.), has been appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering on 28 August 2013.
Patrick Rinke, School of Science
Patrick Rinke (born 1975, Germany) studied physics in Heidelberg, Germany, before moving to England in 1998. Patrick graduated from the University of York in England in 2003 with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics on excitations in spherical nanosystems. Subsequently, he became a post-doctoral scholar and then a group leader at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany. From 2007 to 2009, he was postdoc in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). For his work on the quantum mechanical description of nitride-based light-emitting diodes, he received a UCSB outstanding postdoctoral researcher award.
At the Aalto University School of Science, Patrick Rinke is a physics professor and leads a growing Computational Electronic Structure Theory Group. He is a member of the Centre of Excellence in Computational Nanoscience (COMP) at Aalto and a project leader at the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF). Rinke is developing and applying computational methodology to tackle outstanding problems in semiconductor science and technology and in hybrid materials such as interfaces between organic and inorganic materials.
Patrick Rinke, Ph.D., has been appointed Professor of Computational Materials Physics at the Aalto University School of Science on 16 June 2014.
Orlando Rojas, School of Chemical Technology
Orlando Rojas (born 1962, Venezuela) earned his doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in chemical engineering from Auburn University in 1998. Prior to joining Aalto University, he was a professor in the departments of forest biomaterials and chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University (2004–2014). He held tenure as a senior scientist appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in the Department of Chemistry, Surface Chemistry. In 2013 he was elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society for his scientific contributions in the field of renewable materials. He was a FiDiPro (Finland Distinguished Professor) at Aalto University (2009–2014) and was chair of the CELL division of the American Chemical Society (2009–2011).
His work has centred on the utilization of fibres and biopolymers in novel, high performance materials and the interfacial and adsorption behaviours of surfactants and polymers at interfaces. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. His recent efforts deal with the development of nanostructures from the fibre cell wall, the dynamics of enzymatic reactions, functionalization of lignocellulose, surface-responsive materials and biosensors.
Orlando Rojas, Ph.D, has been appointed Professor of Bio-Based Materials at the Aalto University School of Chemical Technology on 18 November 2013.
Markku Sopanen, School of Electrical Engineering
Markku Sopanen (born 1964, Finland) earned his D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in Optoelectronics at Helsinki University of Technology in 1997. After graduation he worked as Teaching Researcher at Helsinki University of Technology (1997–2009). He has also worked as an Academy of Finland Post-doctoral Researcher (1998–2000) and Academy Fellow (2000–2001). He spent the year of 1999 at the University of California (San Diego) as a post-doctoral visiting scientist. Dr Sopanen was acting professor and head of the Optoelectronics Laboratory for one year (2003–2004) and was appointed to a fixed-term professor post in 2009 at Helsinki University of Technology. He has been Director of the International Master’s Programme in Micro- and Nanotechnology for six years and has supervised eleven doctoral degrees.
Dr. Sopanen has 140 scientific journal publications and more than 70 conference contributions. His research interests include epitaxy of semiconductor materials, fabrication of nanostructures and optoelectronic devices, and optical spectroscopy.
Markku Sopanen, D.Sc. (Tech.), has been appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering on 16 June 2014.
Anniina Suominen, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Anniina Suominen (born 1973, Finland) is a citizen of both the United States and Finland, and she has completed degrees and worked in both countries. She earned her BA/MA from the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 1999 and her Ph.D. in Art Education from Ohio State University in 2003. Since then, she has worked for Kent State and Florida State universities in the U.S. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art Pedagogy in the Department of Art as well as the head of the Art Education Study Programme in the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University. In 2011 Dr. Suominen earned the Kenneth A. Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Art Education at Ohio State University.
For the past decade and a half, Dr. Suominen has shared her time between the two countries, navigating and negotiating their landscapes, socio-cultural traditions, and institutional differences. Her simultaneous attachment to both of these geographical places has shaped her work as a scholar and art educator. The themes she works with are (non)contextual identities, learning in relation to place and others, gendered identities, and environmental art education, diversity art education, and visual/artistic methodologies.
Anniina Suominen, Ph.D., has been appointed Professor of Art Pedagogy at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture on 21 October 2013.
Marko Terviö, School of Business
Marko Terviö (born 1971, Finland) earned his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. After his doctorate, Terviö worked as an assistant professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2009, he received a European Research Council five-year starting grant and was appointed to a fixed-term professor post at what was then known as the Helsinki School of Economics, which later became the Aalto University School of Business.
Dr. Terviö’s specialty is the microeconomics of labour markets and the income distribution. He is known for his theoretical and applied research on 'superstar' occupations and industries, such as company CEOs and professional football players. His ongoing research is focused on the allocation of scarce cognitive and non-cognitive abilities in the economy. Dr. Terviö currently serves on the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies and is an associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association.
Marko Terviö, Ph.D., has been appointed Professor of Microeconomics at the Aalto University School of Business on 16 June 2014.
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