SoftSimu - People
Group leader
Postdoctoral fellows
Dr. Jari Jalkanen.
Jointly w/ Drs. Grame Hunter & Harvey Goldberg.
Projects: Biomineralization.
From: Helsinki U of Tech
Dr. John Titantah.
Projects: Nanoparticles,
properties of water
From: Unversity of Antwerpen
Dr. Matthew Hoopes.
Projects: Proteins & sterols
From: U California, Davis
Dr. Tushar Das.
Jointly w/ Prof. Mandar Jog
and Prof. Shantanu Basu
Projects: Data modelling in
neuroscience
From: U Western Ontario
Graduate students
Elio Cino
Disordered proteins
Mona Habibi
Self-assembly
Anna Mkratchyan
Cold denraturation
Matthew Cox
GPU methods in science
Bin Liu
Langmuir monolayers
Niloufar Faghihi
Magnetic nanoparticles
Alex Marshall
Carbon nanotubes
Long term visitors/sabbaticals
None at the moment
Undergraduate and summer students
Accepting applications
Visiting students
Jessica Xie from Fudan University, Shanghai
Alumni {click to expand/contract}
Dr. Susanna Hug. Did her PhD with us 2007-2011. Now in Switzerland
Dr. Mohsen Pourmousa. Did his PhD with us 2007-2011. Now at UWO
MSc Sepideh Soltani. Did her MSc with us 2010-2011. Now at UWO
Dr. Markus Miettinen. Did his PhD with us. Now a PDF at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany.
Dr. Jirasak Wong-Ekkabut. Postdoc 2008-2010. Now a lecturer at the Dept. of Physics, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Salvador Herrera Velarde. CONACYT Postdoc 2009-2010. Now at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico.
Dr. Cristiano Dias. Postdoc 2007-2009. Now a PDF at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Pawel Pomorski. Postdoc 2006-2008. Now at SharcNet.
Mr. Jason Eastman. Did his BSc with us.
Dr. Lei Dong. Did her Dr. Tech. in our group. Now postdoc in Helsnki U. of Tech.
Dr. Tomasz Rog. An EU Marie Curie Fellow and a postdoc 2004-2008. Currently Academy of Finland Fellow.
Dr. Andrea Catte. He was a postdoc Jan. 2007- Dec. 2008. Now at University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Mr. Jason O'Young, MSc student 2007-2008. Now at UWO dentistry.
Mr. Sanjin Sijaric, did his BSc with us. Now at IBM Canada.
Dr. Lorna Stimson. She was a postdoc 2004-2007. Now at Wiley in Germany.
Dr. Jarmila Repakova. She was a postdoc 2005-2007. Now in the Technical University of München, Germany.
Ms. Rolina van Gaalen, did her BSc with us. Now grad student at McGill.
Mr. Matthew Cox, did his BSc with us. Now a grad student in Waterloo.
Dr. Wei Zhao. Did his Dr. Tech. in our group. Now at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Dr. Petri Nikunen. Did his Dr. Tech. in our group. Now in the Finnish IT Center for Science.
Dr. Teemu Leppänen. Did his MSc and Dr. Tech. in our group. Now at IBM.
Dr. Michael Patra, Postdoc, Marie Curie Fellow Sep. 2001 - Nov. 2004. Now at Carl Zeiss Gmbh in Germany.
Prof. Ji-Ping Huang, long-term visiting student 2002. Now professor of physics in Fudan University, China
Dr. Nick Braun, long-term visiting scientist. Now in the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Mr. Li Jingynan, IAESTE trainee during summer 2002 from Zhejiang University, China
Dr. Ari Lukkarinen, now at CSC Scientific Computing Ltd.
Mr. Olli-Pentti Saira, summer student 2004. Now grad student at Helsinki Univ. of Tech.
Mr. Olli Mali, summer student 2003. Now grad student at Helsinki Univ. of Tech.
Mr. Markus Siivola, summer student 2002. Now in Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Dr. Alex Bunker, senior researcher, Feb. 2005-Oct. 2005. Now a senior/chief researcher in the Drug Development and Technology Center in the University of Helsinki.
Friends and collaborations
Prof. James Choy, Dept of Biochemistry, U Western Ontario, Canada
Prof. Kyle Daun, Mechanical & Mechatronics Eng, U Waterloo, Canada
Prof. Ilpo Vattulainen, Dept of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Prof. Mikko Haataja, Dept of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Dr. Maria Sammalkorpi, Dept of Chemistry, Aalto University, Finland
Prof. Harvey Goldberg, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Dept of Biochemistry, U Western Ontario, Canada
Prof. Graeme Hunter, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Dept of Biochemistry, U Western Ontario, Canada
Prof. Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Lab of Physics, Aalto University, Finland
Prof. Roland Faller, Chemical Eng, U. of California, Davis, USA
Prof. Ken Elder, Dept. of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester (MI), U.S.A.
Prof. Iaroslav Ispolatov, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Santiago, Chile
Prof. Ji-Ping Huang, Dept of Physics, Fudan University, China
Dr. Jan Åström, CSC - the Finnish IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland
Prof. P.B. Sunil Kumar, Dept of Physics, IIIT Madtas, India
Prof. Ramon Reigada, Dept of Chemistry, U Barcelona