I am responsible of Tampere Microscopy Center (TMC) infrastructure (Head of TMC, Prof. Minnamari Vippola) together with Staff Scientist Turkka Salminen. You can visit TMC virtually.

My tasks in practice: coordinator and facilitator at TMC, training and guiding electron microscopy operators, materials characterization collaboration in various TAU projects and other academic and research institutes, teaching in the field of materials characterization, co-operation with national and international microscopy laboratories and networks.

My research interests include characterization of catalysts, other nanomaterials and structures, magnetic materials, steels, composites, ceramics, coatings, bio-based materials etc.