Engineering Physics

The list is updated by Mika Sillanpää, mika.sillanpaa@aalto.fi. 
SupervisorPotential Masters Thesis topic areas
Ala-Nissilä, TapioMulti-scale and coarse-graining methodologies and their application to condensed matter systems, open quantum systems, dynamics of nonlinear systems
Alava, MikkoStatistical physics for materials, complex networks, and computer science
Backholm, MatildaExperimental soft, living, and fluid matter physics, force measurement techniques, biomechanics, swimming dynamics, fluid dynamics, capillary phenomena
Flindt, ChristianTheoretical problems in quantum transport
Foster, AdamAtomistic and quantum mechanical simulations, machine learning, nanoscale surface and interface physics
Gheorghe-Sorin, ParaoanuExperimental circuit-QED (parametric devices, superconducting qubits) – from fundamental aspects to quantum technologies
Groth, MatiasFusion energy technology
Hakonen, PerttiFundamental quantum phenomena in nanostructures at low temperatures, electronic transport measurements
Halme, JanneRenewable energy technologies, solar energy, photovoltaics, multidisciplinary energy studies, art-science collaboration, nature-positive energy solutions
Ikkala, OlliFunctional materials based on supramolecular and supracolloidal self-assembly and its hierarchies
Kaivola, MattiModern optics and photonics, various aspects of light-matter interaction, optical coherence and polarization
Lado, JoseTheory of correlated van der Waals quantum materials, quantum many-body physics with tensor-networks, and machine learning for quantum materials
Liljeroth, PeterAtomically well-defined nanostructures, low-temperature scanning probe microscopy, two-dimensional materials
Kauppinen, EskoNanomaterials, carbon nanotubes in transparent and flexible electronics
Kurki-Suonio, TainaPhysics in fusion plasmas
Lund, PeterEnergy transition, renewable energy technologies, AI and energy, nanomaterials for energy
Mercier de Lépinay, LaureSuperconducting mechanical devices, force measurement with nanomechanical oscillators
Möttönen, MikkoQuantum physics with superconducting circuits, control and readout of superconducting qubits, theory of fundamental quantum mechanics, open quantum systems, ultrasensitive bolometers
Pekola, JukkaElectron transport in nanostructures, quantum thermodynamics
Ras, RobinFunctional soft materials and the wettability of surfaces, water-repellent biological surfaces
Ruokolainen, JanneFunctional materials based on supramolecular and supracolloidal self-assembly and its hierarchies
Sand, AndreaComputational methods for nuclear materials, nuclear engineering
Shevchenko, AndriyOptical metamaterials and metasurfaces, advanced optical imaging, optical nanochips. Both theoretical and experimental studies
Sillanpää, MikaQuantum phenomena in mechanical systems, superconducting qubits with micro acoustics, spin acoustics
Timonen, JaakkoExperimental soft condensed matter physics, active matter, living matter, pattern formation, biophysics, self-assembly, capillary phenomena and colloids
Törmä, PäiviQuantum many-body theory of superconductivity, experiments in nanophotonics
van Dijken, SebastiaanMagnetic, magneto-optical, and spin-transport phenomena in new functional materials and hybrid nanoscale structures


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Last modified: Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 10:42 AM