Research interests

• microfluidic total analysis systems, digital microfluidics
• polymer microfabrication
• electrokinetic separations
• mass spectrometry
• drug metabolism

International exchange activities

• January-February 2014, research visit to University of Toronto, Wheeler group (prof. Aaron Wheeler), Dept. Chemistry and Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Canada
• September-December 2011, research visit to DTU Nanotech, ChemLabChip research group (prof. Jörg Kutter), Dept Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark

Recent academic and scientific positions of trust

• 01/2014 - 12/2017, Faculty council, Faculty of Pharmacy, UH (personal deputy member of council)
• 04/2014 – 03/2018, Institute of Biotechnology, UH (personal deputy member of board)
• 2015, Helsinki Challenge science competition and idea accelerator (leader of the semifinal team Generation Green)
• 2015, The 19th MicroTAS 2015 Conference, Gueongju, Korea, October 25-29, 2015 (member of the Technical Program Committee )
• 2015, Transducers'15 Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, June 21-25, 2015 (member of the technical Program Committee)

 Main academic and scientific awards and honors

• 2014, Head marshal of the conferment ceremony of the Faculty of Philosophy, UH, May 2014
• 2013, Young researcher award (participant) at the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for Chemistry, June 30-July 5, Lindau, Germany
• 2010, Doctor Philosophiae Ultima (second highest ranking doctor) at the conferment ceremony of the Faculty of Philosophy, UH, May 2010
• 2008, Doctoral thesis award, Finnish Mass Spectrometry Society
• 2003, Master’s thesis awards, Faculty of Science, UH and Lars Grenman award