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News from our group

• Quantum leaps towards new technology in the Finnish Quantum Flagship (Feb 2024)
• Keskisuomalainen 11.8.2023 (in Finnish)
• Kvanttiteknologia lähtee aivot nyrjäyttävistä oivalluksista (Kalle Kansanen's dissertation press release, September 2022).
• Researchers find how to make diodes from superconductors. In Finnish here. (May 2022)
• Researchers find superconductors can carry magnetic information to much longer distances than conventional metals. In Finnish here. (May 2022)
• V (Risto Ojajärvi's dissertation press release, April 2022)
• Tero Heikkilä: (link with free access!), Perspective article in Science (Feb 2022)
• Teemu Peltonen defended his doctoral thesis work (Sep 2020).  (in Finnish)!
• New study explains why superconductivity takes place in graphene (Feb 2020)
• Faluke Aikebaier defended his doctoral thesis work New forms of superconductivity (Jan 2020)
• Non-Adiabatic Dynamics of Strongly Driven Diffusive Josephson Junctions (Dec 2019)
• Tero Heikkilä got the  (in Finnish). Jyväskylän yliopiston tiedote tässä. (Dec 2018)
• Risto Ojajärvi got the TEK/MAL award for the best master's thesis in natural sciences 2017. Press release in Finnish here. (Nov 2018)
• We got an FET Open funding for developing a super-ferro based thermoelectric radiation detector (Apr 2018) (suomeksi tässä)
• Risto Ojajärvi was selected the Young Physicist of the Year 2017 by the Finnish Physical Society. The press release in Finnish here. (Mar 2018)
• Tero Heikkilä became the new head of the Nanoscience Center (Jan 2018) (suomeksi tässä)
• Quantum theory for manipulating nanomagnets (June 2017) (suomeksi tässä)
• Tero Heikkilä was invited as a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
• in the public event on the Nobel prizes in Physics, organised in Espoo 15.12.2016.
• Researchers beat the quantum limit of microwave measurements (March 2017) (suomeksi tässä)
• Researchers nearly reached the quantum limit with nanodrums (October 2016) (suomeksi tässä)
• When mediated by superconductivity, light pushes matter million times more (April 2015) (suomeksi tässä)
• Heat makes electrons' spin in magnetic superconductors (April 2015) (suomeksi tässä)
• See our work predicting a very large thermophase in superconducting junctions with ferromagnetic insulators (February 2015)
• See our prediction of the amplification of the radiation pressure type coupling between light and matter via the Josephson effect (May 2014)
• See our prediction of a huge thermoelectric effect taking place in superconductor-ferromagnet interfaces (in Finnish,  is the link to the paper) (Jan 2014)
• See 's Science Perspective  (Nov 2013)

(List is likely incomplete.)

Master students

• Risto Ojajärvi, MSc 2017
• Petri Kuusela, MSc 2017
• Aili Asikainen, MSc 2016
• Terhi Moisala, MSc 2015. 
• Ville Kauppila, MSc 2012
• Jukka Väyrynen, MSc 2010
• Matti Laakso, MSc 2008
• Juha Voutilainen, MSc 2007
• Pauli Virtanen, MSc 2005

PhD students

• Kalle Kansanen, . Then a postdoc at Lund and Aalto 2022-2024. Now a Marie Curie postdoc in Lund University.
• Risto Ojajärvi, . Postdoc in KIT Karlsruhe 2022-2024. Now a postdoc in the CMT group.
• Faluke Aikebaier, . Then a postdoc in Aalto and Tampere universities.
• Teemu Peltonen, . Then software developer 2021-2023. Researcher at Magister Solutions 2023-
• Ville Kauppila, . Postdoc in UAM Madrid 2017-2018. Analyst at OP 2018-
• Raphael Khan, . Sales engineer/scientist at Bluefors 2016-
• Matti Laakso, . Postdoc in RWTH Aachen 2012-2014. Software designer at Espotel 2014-2015. Software architect at Kone 2016-
• Juha Voutilainen, . Patent examiner at National Board of Patents and Registration 2013-2016. Patent attourney at Papula Nevinpat 2016-
• Pauli Virtanen, . Postdoc in Würtzburg, Braunschweig and Academy Postdoc at Aalto. Researcher at JYU and SNS Pisa. Now a senior researcher in the CMT group.
• Teemu Ojanen, . Postdoc at Freie Universität Berlin 2008-2010. Academy Postdoc at Aalto 2010-2012. Academy Research Fellow and senior researcher at Aalto 2012-2018. First associate, then full professor at University of Tampere 2018-

Postdocs

• Andrii Sokolov. 2022-2023.
• Camillo Tassi. 2020-2021. Then a postdoc in DIPC San Sebastian 2022-2023. Now a postdoc in the University of Pisa.
• Yao Lu. 2019-2022. Then a postdoc in CFM San Sebastian. Now an associate professor in the Huaqiao University, China. 
• Philippe Djorwe. 2015-2017. Then a postdoc at IEMN CNRS in France and Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Spain.
• Subrata Chakraborty. 2017-2019. Then a postdoc at Queen's college New York and University of Konstanz. Now a research support technician at UAM Madrid.
• Timo Hyart. 2014-2018. Then a senior researcher and a group leader in Mag Top in Warsaw, Poland and a senior postdoc in Aalto. Now a senior researcher in Aalto University.
• Mikhail Silaev. Then an Academy research fellow in the CMT group.
• Janne Viljas. 2009-2011. Then a senior patent examiner in the Finnish Patents and Registration Office.
• Pauli Virtanen. Now a senior researcher in the CMT group.
• Francesco Massel. 2010-2012. Then a postdoc in the University of Helsinki, and an Academy research fellow in the CMT group. Now a professor in the University of South-Eastern Norway

Academy research fellows

• Mikhail Silaev. 2017-2021. Then a senior researcher in the University of Tampere. 
• Francesco Massel. 2014-2019. Now a professor in the University of South-Eastern Norway.

Others

• Kurt Meier
• Juho Arjoranta