Executive committee member details

Risto Nieminen

Dr.Sc. (Tech.) 1975 Helsinki University of Technology

Academy Professor and Leader of the COMP unit at Helsinki University of Technology with 60 researchers. COMP has been designated as a National Center of Excellence in Research by the Academy of Finland for 2000-2011.

Research areas: Theoretical and computational condensed-matter and materials physics; nanosciences and nanotechnology.

Publication activity: 365 refereed original and 51 refereed review publications in condensed matter and materials physics journals, books and monographs. These articles have received more than 8000 citations in the SCI database. More than 150 other articles, including conference proceedings, numerous popular articles and media presentations.

Graduate and post-doctoral supervision: Supervised 38 Ph.Ds during 1978-2006. Chairman of the National Graduate School in Materials Physics since 1994. Board member in the Swedish National Graduate School in Scientific Computing since 1999. Supervised 25 post-doctoral fellows during 1981-2006.

Conference activities: 135 invited and plenary talks at international conferences. Member of the organisation committees of 84 international conferences.

Current scientific editorships: Editor, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering (Springer); Physica Scripta; Materials Science Forum; Journal of Scientific Programming; Journal of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering; Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience; Journal of Physics CM: Condensed Matter.

Recent international scientific duties:
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, the NANOMAT Programme, Norwegian Research Council, 2003-.
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max-Planck-Society, Germany, 2004- .
Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Association, Germany, 2004-.
Member, Board of the eVITA Research Program, Norwegian Research Council, 2005-.
Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the Thomas Young Centre, Imperial College and University of London, UK

Other recent committee service: Chairman, Tugnregnekommitteen, Norway , 2003-2004.
Steering Committee for the Nordic Data Grid Facility, 2003-2005.
Chairman, United World Colleges Committee in Finland, 2003 - .
Chairman, National Strategy Group for Grid Infrastructure, 2005-

Other positions of trust: Member, Governing Board of the Finnish Cultural Foundation, 1994-; Executive Council, 1999-.
Member, Governing Board of Osk.Huttunen Foundation, 2000- ; Chairman 2006- .
Member, Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland, 2005-2008.
Member, National Committee for Public Information, 2006 -.
Associate Member, Board of the Innovation Foundation, 2005 -.

Recent invited lectureships: Honorary Visiting Fellow, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, 2001.
Honorary Visiting Fellow, Catholic University of Chile, 2006.

Honors and prizes: Member, Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Member, Finnish Academy of Technology.
Fellow, American Physical Society.
Fellow, Institute of Physics (UK).
Magnus Ehrnrooth Physics Prize 1989.
University Publicists' Prize 2003.
Professor of the Year 2003.
Knight (First Class), Order of the White Rose of Finland.