The Nanoscience Days began in 2004, at the opening ceremony of the NSC. The opening ceremony involved many renowned scientists and since then the tradition has continued in the form of Nanoscience Days. Since then, about 160 famous international scientists from a variety of fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology have been participating in the conference. In particular, some Nobel prize winners like Morten Meldal, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart, and Stefan Hell have given lectures at the conference. In addition, the Honorary doctor of the Faculty, Prof. Ara Apkarian has presented his results several times at Nanoscience Days.
7.-8.10.2024
Chair: Executive group of Nanoscience Center.
20th aniversary of the Nanoscience Center as well as the 20th Nanoscience Days. Honorary plenary lectures were given by a Nobel Prize winner Morten Meldal and the most succesful former NSD speakers and founders.
10.-11.10.2023
Chair: Juha Muhonen, Co-chairs: Heikki Takala and Lotta-Riina Sundberg, Conference abstract book ( to view)
- University of California, Irvine, USA
- Aalto University, Finland
- Institute Pasteur, France
- University of Helsinki, Finland
- Aalto University, Finland
- University of Turku, Finland
- Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Leiden University, Netherlands
4.-5.10.2022
Chair: Marko Melander, Co-chairs: Varpu Marjomäki and Pekka Koskela, Conference abstract book ( to view)
- University of Warwick, UK
- University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Tokyo University of Science, Japan
- University of Stuttgart, Germany
- University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Finland
- Wake Forest University, USA
- Università di Parma, Italy
- University of Tartu / University of California, Estonia / USA
- Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
5.–6.10.2021
Chair: Heikki Takala, Co-chairs: Maija Nissinen and Janne Ihalainen, Conference abstract book ( to view)
- Andrea MorelloUniversity of New South Wales, Australia
- Anna Lähde University of Eastern Finland, Finland
- Cynthia Sharma University of Würzburg, Germany
- University of Cambridge, UK
- Stony Brook University, New York, USA
- California Institute of Technology, USA
- Tampere University, Finland
- Rodolphe Clerac Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, France
- Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd., UK
- Institut Català d'Investigació QuÃmica, Spain
6.–7.10.2020
Chair: Tuomas Puurtinen, Co-chairs: Ilari Maasilta and Lotta-Riina Sundberg, Conference Abstract Book ( to view)
- The City University of New York, USA
- University of Florida, USA
- Bar Ilan University, Israel
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- Aalto University and VTT, Finland
- University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Tampere University, Finland
- Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
- J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Republic
- University of Heidelberg, Germany
8.–9.10.2019
Chair: Toni Metsänen, Co-chairs: Petri Pihko and Tanja Lahtinen, Conference Abstract Book ( to view)
- University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Nature Communications, USA
- Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Aalto University, Finland
- University of Turku, Finland
- University of Bristol, United Kingdom
- Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland
- University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Harvard University, USA
9.–10.10.2018
Chair: Varpu Marjomäki, Conference Abstract Books (to view)
- Aarhus University, Denmark
- Aalto University , Finland
- Tue Hassenkam University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland
- Hamburg DESY , Germany
- Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- University of Eastern Finland, Finland
3.–4.10.2017
Chair: Jussi Toppari
- Thomas Baumert University of Kassel, Germany
- Thomas Ebbesen University of Strasbourg, France
- Makoto Fujita University of Tokyo, Japan
- Gerrit Groenhof Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland
- Ivan Huc IECB, Bordeaux, France
- Shahal Ilani Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
- Elijah Petersen NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
- Milo Shaffer Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Hiroaki Suga University of Tokyo, Japan
- Joel Ullom NIST, Boulder, USA
22.–23.10.2015
Chair: Gerrit Groenhof
- Anne Andrews University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Bill Barnes University of Exeter, UK
- Kurt Vesterager Gothelf Aarhus University, Denmark
- Rienk van Grondelle VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Anders Hagfeldt EPFL, Switzerland
- Stefan Jakobs Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany
- Charles Marcus Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Hele Savin Aalto University, Finland
- Serdar Sariciftci Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
20.–21.11.2014
Chair: Hannu Häkkinen
- Juan Carlos Cuevas Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- Hans-Joachim Freund Fritz Haber Institut in Berlin, Germany
- Janne Ihalainen Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland
- Staffan Johansson University of Uppsala, Sweden
- Peter Lievens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Morten Meldal University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Ursula Rothlisberger Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Paul S. Weiss University of California, Los Angeles, USA
23.–24.10.2013
Chair: Hannu Häkkinen
- Helmut Grubmuller Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
- Thomas Huser University Bielefeld, Germany
- Olli Ikkala Aalto University, Finland
- Boris Karasik California Institute of Technology, USA
- Dave H.A.Blank MESA+/University of Twente, the Netherlands
- Gary Steele T.U. Delft, the Netherlands
- Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University, USA
- Mika Pettersson Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland
2012
Chair: Hannu Häkkinen
- Sarah Butcher University of Helsinki, Finland
- Neil Champness University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Wolfgang Fritzsche Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
- Tsutomu Masujima Riken, Quantitative Biology Center, Japan
- Francesco Stellacci EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
- Päivi Törmä Aalto University, Finland
- Martin Zanni University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
2011
Chair: Jouko Korppi-Tommola
- V. Ara Apkarian University of California, USA
- David Critchley University of Leicester, United Kingdom
- Per Delsing Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Andrea Ferrari University of Cambridge, UK
- Uzi Landman Georgia Institute of Techology, USA
- Jukka Pekola Aalto University, Finland
- Chris Phillips Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Kari Rissanen Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland
- Jan van Ruitenbeek University of Leiden, the Netherlands
- Ilpo Vattulainen Tampere University of Technology, Finland
2010
Chair: Jouko Korppi-Tommola
- Hendrik Dietz Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Karl Leo TU Dresden and Fraunhofer-Institute for Photonic, Germany
- Heiner Linke University of Lund, Sweden
- Lars Samuelson University of Lund, Sweden
- George Schatz Northwestern University, USA
- David Stuart University of Oxford, UK
- Robert Whetten Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta and Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, the US / Finland
2009
- Joachim Krenn University of Graz and Joanneum Research Institute, Austria
- Carolyn Larabell Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
- Kit Lam UC Davis Cancer Center, USA
- Jens K. Nørskov Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Virgil Percec University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Peter E. Prevelige University of Alabama, USA
- Ben Schuler University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Alexander Wei Purdue University, USA
- Ludger Wöste University of Berlin, Germany
2008
- Dennis Discher University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Uli Heiz Technische Universität München, Germany
- Peter Hinterdorfer Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
- Greg Howard University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Georg Jakopic Joanneum Research Institute of Nanostructured Materials and Photonics, Austria
- Joseph R. Lakowicz University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
- David Leigh University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin Institut Pasteur, France
- Michael Roukes California Institute of Technology, USA
- Jean-Pierre Sauvagen Université Louis Pasteur, France
2007
- Catherine Brechignac CNRS, France
- Tobias Brixner University of Würzburg, Germany
- Hans-Joachim Freund Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany
- Makoto Fujita The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Maria Garcia-Parajo Barcelona Scientific Park, Spain
- Walter A. de Heer Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Stefan W. Hell Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
- Esko Kauppinen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Hubert Schmidbaur Technische Universität München, Germany
- Roman Tuma University of Helsinki, Finland
- Martin Wegener Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
2006
- Jaana Bamford Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland
- Thomas Bjørnholm University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Luisa De Cola Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany
- Pertti Hakonen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Ari Helenius ETH Zurich, Germany
- Jörg Langowski German Cancer Research Center, Germany
- Markku Lämsä Tekes, Finland
- Rickhard Palmer University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Susanne Viefers University of Oslo, Norway
- Harry Whitlow Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland
2005
Chair: Hannu Häkkinen
- Philippe Chomaz GANIL, France
- Rudolf Grimm University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Karsten Jacobsen Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Helge Lemmetyinen Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Varpu Marjomäki Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland
- Daniel Müller Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Keith Schwab University of Maryland, USA
- Päivi Törmä Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland
- Ilpo Vattulainen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
2004
- Sumio Iijima Meijo University, Nagoya
- Reginald Penner University of California, Irvine, USA
- David Reinhoudt Universiteit Twente, Germany
- Fraser Stoddart Institute of California NanoSystems, USA
- Viola Vogel Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
