Mikko Karttunen

University of Eastern Finland

Dr. Mikko Karttunen is a Professor of Computational Engineering/Physics at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio and a Principal Investigator at the ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Institute in Finland at Espoo. He obtained his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from McGill University in Montreal (1999) and an M.Sc. from Tampere University of Technology (1993) .  After his PhD, he moved to a postdoctoral research fellowship at the  Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, followed by becoming a Group Leader at the Laboratory of Computational Engineering and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University).  He moved to the current position from Western University in London, Canada, where he was a Professor of Physics and Chemistry, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Computational Materials and Biomaterials Research. Prior to Western, he was a Professor of Chemistry and a Member of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a Professor and Chair of Mathematics of Complex Systems at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.   His research is characterized by the development and use of large-scale, high-performance computer simulations, and the development and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.  His research program integrates such computational methods especially with biological, pharmaceutical and materials sciences.