April 7, 2010

Name:                                  Juhani Keinonen

Year and country of birth:     1946, Finland

Current position:                   Professor of Applied Physics, 1994 –
                                           Head of the Department of Physics, 1995 –

Education and training:          M.Sc. in Physics, University of Helsinki, 1971
                                           Phil. Lic. in Physics, University of Helsinki, 1973
                                           Ph.D. in Physics, University of Helsinki, 1975

Previous professional appointments at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki:

1971 – 82  Assistant, Acting Laboratory Engineer, Acting Associate Professor, Acting Lecturer,  Junior Reserach Associate and Acting Senior Researh Associate (Academy of Finland), Acting Professor of Physics, Acting Professor of Applied Physics

1977 – 82    Docent of Physics, University of Helsinki

1982 – 94    Associate Professor of Physics

1984 – 94    Head of the Accelerator Laboratory

1995 – 98    Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki

Honorary memberships

• Member, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters 1995
•  Gauss-Professor, Die Academie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 1999 (4 months)
•  Knight (First Class), Order of White Rose of Finland 1999
• Member, Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters 2006 
• Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland 2007
  

Major support for research in 1993-2010

• Research grants (3-year grants for 12 projects) from the Academy of Finland, Technical Development Centre, and EU fusion energy programme in the areas of (i) processing and characterization of materials with ion beams, especially related to modelling of atomic structures in nanoclusters and quantum dots and (ii) irradiation effects on the fusion plasma facing material, especially hydrogen retention in carbon and diamond coatings

Memberships in scientific societies

• Finnish Physical Society, 1972 – , Board member 1986 – 89, President 1987 – 88
• Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Board member 1988 –,  Vice President 1989 –
• Finnish Industrial Physical Society, 1982 –, Board member 1991 – 93, President 1992, Vice President 1993
•  Finnish Vacuum Society, 1981 – 
•  European Physical Society, 1985 –, Council member 1987 – 89
• The American Physical Society, 1992 –

Other academic and professional activities

Memberships in scientific organizations

• Nordic Committee for Accelerator Based Physics, 1989 – 91
•  Chairman, Nordic Committee for Accelerator Based Physics, 1990 – 91
•  Research Council for the Natural Sciences, Academy of Finland, 1992 – 94
• Research Council for the Natural and Technical Sciences, Academy of Finland, 1995 – 97
•  Council of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble, France), 1992 – 97
•  Chairman, NORDSYNC delegation for the ESRF Council, 1994
•  Council of European Union of Physics Research Organisations (EUPRO), 1993 – 97
• Board, Helsinki Institute of Physics, 1996 –
• Finnish representative in the COST technical committee of Physics, 2000 – 03
• Finance Committee of CERN, 1997 – 2003
• Board, Drug Discovery and Development Center, University of Helsinki, 2006 –
• Board, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, 1992 –
• Board, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 1995 –
• Senate, University of Helsinki, 1998 – 2006

Member in committees for 15 large international conferences and chairman of 3 conferences

Memberships in national and international organizations and committees

• Evaluation Group appointed by the Ministry of Education for the evaluation of higher education in mathematics and natural science in Finland, Vice chairman, 1991 – 92
•  International Evaluation Committee for the evaluation of the University of Kuopio, 1993
•  International Evaluation Committee for the evaluation of higher education in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in the University of Turku, 1993
• Chairman of the Programme Committee, National Programme on Materials and Structure Research, by the Academy of Finland, 1993 – 1997
• Executive Group appointed by the Ministry of Trade and Industry for the national research programme in the fusion energy, 1993 – 2002
• Working group appointed by the Ministry of Education for the nationwide project “Finnish mathematical and natural science awareness 2002”, 1996 – 2002
• International Evaluation Committee for the physics and technical physics curricula in Estonian universities, 1998
• Board, IVO (an electricity company in Finland) Foundation, 1997 – 2001
• Board, Finnish Union of University Professors, 1995 – 2002
• Vice President, Finnish Union of University Professors, 1995 – 98
• President, Finnish Union of University Professors, 1999 – 2002
• Society for Researchers and Parlament Members, 1995  –
•  Council of Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre, 2000 –
•  Council, Helsinki University Museum, 2001 –
•  Council, Finnish Finland-Germany Institute in Berlin, 2001 –
• Evaluation Committee for the evaluation of the University of Uppsala, 2001
• National Defence Course Society,  2002 –
• Evaluation Committee for the evaluation of the research centre of excellence applications at the University of Uppsala, 2005
•  Chairman, International Evaluation Committee for the physics curricula in Tarto and Tallin universities, 2005
• Reporter appointed by the Minister of Transport and Communication (Cooperation between the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Finnish Institute of Marine Research), 2007
• Board, Survey of national research infrastructures and roadmap for future infrastructures, appointed by the Minister of Education, 2008

Referee for journals

• Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B; Thin Solid Films; Applied Physics A; Journal of Tribology (Transacts. Of the Amer. Soc. Of Mechanical Engineers); Wear; Nuclear Physics A; The Physical Review C and Physical Review Letters; Computational Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering A; Science; Nature; Nanotechnology; New Journal of Physics; Materials Chemistry and Physics; Semiconductor Sciene and Technology

Scientific work done in laboratories abroad, 1975 – 2007 (altogether about 4 years)

• Department of Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne (Germany) 
• Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Kingston (Canada)
• Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (Canada)
•  The 2^nd Institute of Physics, University of Göttingen (Germany) 
• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley (USA)
• GSI (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung), Darmstadt (Germany)
• HMI (Hahn-Meitner-Institut für Kernforschung) Berlin (Germany)
• MPI (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik) Heidelberg (Germany)
• Centre de Recherches Nucléaires, Strasbourg (France)
• ATOMKI (Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Debrecen (Hungary)
• ILL (Institut Laue Langevin), Grenoble (France)
• ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Tennessee (USA)

Supervisor or co-supervisor of 30 Ph.D. theses

Publications

List of scientific publications comprises over 300 refereed articles in 1973 – 2007 in the fields of specialization, namely applied and materials physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics.