University of Helsinki

Tel: +358 9 1911
E-mail addresses in the University of Helsinki: firstname.surname@helsinki.fi

Faculty of Biosciences

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Program on Structural Virology
Prof. Dennis Bamford

Institute of Biotechnology

Research programme in Structural Biology and Biophysics
http://www.biocenter.helsinki.fi/bi/research_struct.htm

Helsinki Bioenergetics Group
(Prof. Mårten Wikström)
www.physics.helsinki.fi/biophysics/bioenergetics/

Structure, Assembly and Functions of Macromolecular Complexes
www.dblab.helsinki.fi

Faculty of Pharmacy

• Drug analysis

• Analytic Laboratory (dos. Raimo Ketola)

• Nanotechnology-based drugs

Faculty of Medicine

Institute of Biomedicine

Biochemistry
HelsinkiBiophysics & Biomembrane Group
(Prof. Paavo Kinnunen)
http://www.biophysics.helsinki.fi

• Self-assembly and organization of biomaterials into supramolecular
  complexes in vitro
• Development of therapeutic nanostructures, carriers (liposomes,
  nanoparticles) for targeted drug delivery, and potential components for molecular electronics

Somerharju Lipid Group
(Dr. Pentti Somerharju)
http://www.helsinki.fi/science/lipids/

Faculty of Sciences

Department of Physical Sciences

• Computational materials physics (Prof. Kai Nordlund)
• Doping and characterization of materials with ion beams (Prof. Juhani Keinonen)

• Soft condenced matter physics, e.g. biopolymer based materials (Prof. Ritva Serimaa)
• Biophysics, NMR (Prof. Arto Annila)
• Solid state physics (Prof. Keijo Hämäläinen)

• Atmospheric aerosols (Profs. Markku. Kulmala and Kaarle Hämeri)
• Aerosol experimental techniques (Profs. M. Kulmala/Kaarle Hämeri)
• Aerosol health effects (Profs. Kaarle Hämeri/M. Kulmala)
• Aerosol dynamic models (Profs. M. Kulmala/Kaarle Hämeri)

Department of Chemistry

• Miniaturized instrumental analytical techniques
• Aerosol mass spectrometry
• Phospholipid coatings
• Ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry (Prof. Tapio Kotiaho)
• Miniaturized mass spectrometry (Prof. Tapio Kotiaho)

• Thin films and nanostructures
• Nanocatalysts and nanopolymers

• Solid state spectroscopy and photochemistry (Prof. Markku Räsänen)

• Polymer grafted gold nanoparticles
• Controlled radical polymerisation
• Environmentally senstive polymers
• Polyelectrolytes, especially polyelectrolyte complexes