Risto M. Nieminen Professor, Helsinki University of Technology Finland

Risto M. Nieminen is  Professor of Physics and Director of the COMP unit at Helsinki University of Technology, designated as a National Center of Excellence in Research  by the Academy of Finland. His research areas are theoretical and computational condensed-matter and materials physics; nanosciences and nanotechnology. He has published 400 refereed original and 60 refereed review publications in condensed matter and materials  physics journals, books and monographs.  These have received more than 13000 citations,  and he has the h-index of 59.

R.M.N. has supervised 45 Ph.Ds during 1978-2008 and 28 post-doctoral fellows during 1981-2008. He has given 140 invited and plenary talks at international conferences. He has been a member of the organisation committees of 84 international conferences.  

R.M.N. is in the Editorial Board for Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Physica Scripta, Materials Science Forum, Journal of Scientific Programming, Journal of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, and Journal of Physics CM: Condensed Matter. He has been selected as Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society.

He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board, of the Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max-Planck-Society, Germany,  the Thomas Young Centre, Imperial College and University of London, and  Center for Atomic-Scale Materials Design at the Technical University of Denmark .  

R.M.N. serves in the Governing Board of the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Osk.Huttunen Foundation, Instrumentarium Science Foundation, as the Chairman of the National Committee for Public Information and as the Chairman of the Millennium Prize Selection Committee.

He has been Honorary Visiting Fellow at Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology,  Catholic University of Chile and Universidad de la Sur in Argentina. He is member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Finnish Academy of Technology, and a Fellow of  American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (UK).