Researchers

Post docs, Ph.D. students and trainees
Pejk Amoroso

Doctoral researcher

Office: Accelerator laboratory 135a

Email: pejk.amoroso@helsinki.fi

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Xudong An

Visiting doctoral researcher

Research:  High entropy alloys, radiation damage, hydrogen embrittlement, positron annihilation technology

Office: Accelerator laboratory 105

Email: xudong.an@helsinki.fi

 

 

Aqsa Ashraf

Doctoral researcher

Research:  Development of Medium Energy Ion Scattering (MEIS) Technique

Office: Accelerator laboratory 104

Email: aqsa.ashraf@helsinki.fi

 

 

Jegors Balzins

Research assistant

Research:  Developing machine learning(tabGAP) interatomic potentials for certain Iron-Nickel based alloys

Office: Accelerator laboratory 125

Email: jegors.balzins@helsinki.fi

 

 

Alexandre Bergero

Doctoral researcher

Research:  Sputtering mechanisms of nuclear fusion relevant wall materials

Office: Accelerator laboratory 104

Email: alexandre.bergero@helsinki.fi

 

 

Alvaro Lopez Cazalilla

Postdoctoral researcher (PhD)

Office: Accelerator laboratory 116

Phone: +358 50 311 2603, +358 29 415 0036

Email: alvaro.lopezcazalilla@helsinki.fi

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Zhehao Chen

Doctoral researcher

Research:   Irradiation damage in high entropy alloys

Office: Accelerator laboratory 117

Email: zhehao.chen@helsinki.fi

Aslak Fellman

Doctoral researcher

Research: Interatomic potentials, machine learning, fusion reactor materials, radiation damage

Office: Accelerator laboratory 117

Email: aslak.fellman@helsinki.fi

Tomas Fernandez Bouvier

Doctoral researcher

Office: Accelerator laboratory 116

Email: tomas.fernandezbouvier@helsinki.fi

Davide Gambino

Visiting postdoctoral researcher

Research:  Computational modeling of radiation damage in high-temperature superconductors for nuclear fusion applications

Office: Accelerator laboratory 108

Email: davide.gambino@liu.se

Ru He

Researcher

Research:   Simulation of radiation damage, gallium oxide

Office: Accelerator laboratory 123

Email: ru.he@helsinki.fi

Milad Ghaemi

Doctoral researcher

Office: Accelerator laboratory 116

E-mail: milad.ghaemikermani@helsinki.fi

Basil Gonsalves

Doctoral researcher

Research:  Development of beryllium-10 accelerator mass spectrometry

Office: Accelerator laboratory 104

Email: basil.gonsalves@helsinki.fi

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Xiaoyu Gui

Doctoral researcher

Research:  Defect engineering in refractory multi-principal-element alloys

Office: Accelerator laboratory 104

Email: xiaoyu.gui@helsinki.fi

Ville Jantunen

Postdoctoral researcher

Research:  Multiscale modeling of ion irradiation effects in silicon.

Other research interests: Ion irradiation effects in materials, swift heavy ion-induced material modification

Office:  Accelerator laboratory 122

Email:  ville.jantunen@helsinki.fi

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Xin Jin

Postdoctoral researcher (PhD)

Research:  Simulation of Rutherford backscattering spectrometry and nuclear reaction analysis in channeling mode, interaction of hydrogen/deuterium with tungsten

Office: Accelerator laboratory 105

e-mail: xin.jin@helsinki.fi

Jyri Kimari

Postdoctoral researcher

Office: Accelerator laboratory 116

Phone: +358 29 415 0036, +358 50 311 2603

Email: jyri.kimari@helsinki.fi

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Roni Koitermaa

Doctoral researcher (cotutelle with University of Tartu)

Research:  Computational modelling of vacuum arcing and materials under high electric fields

Office: Accelerator laboratory 116

Email: roni.koitermaa@helsinki.fi

Spyridon Korkos

Postdoctoral researcher

Research: Growth and characterization of thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering on top of weakly-interacting substrates 
Other research interests: Swift heavy ion irradiation of embedded nanoparticles in thin films, ion beam analysis, plasmonics 

Office: Accelerator laboratory 122

Email: spyridon.korkos@helsinki.fi

 

Faith Kporha

Doctoral researcher

Office: Accelerator laboratory 117

Email: faith.kporha@helsinki.fi

 

Federico Ledda

Visiting doctoral researcher

Research:  Modelling the radiation damage in high temperature superconductors, using classical molecular dynamics and monte carlo simulations

Office: Accelerator laboratory 116

Email: federico.ledda@polito.it

 

Victor Lindblad

Doctoral researcher

Office: Accelerator laboratory 117

Email: victor.lindblad@helsinki.fi

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Anna Liski

Doctoral researcher

Research:  High entropy alloys, deuterium trapping, radiation damage

Office: Accelerator laboratory 104

Email: anna.liski@helsinki.fi

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Huan Liu

Postdoctoral researcher

Research: Ab initio modeling of gallium oxide defects and interfaces

Office: Accelerator laboratory 117

Email: huan.liu@helsinki.fi

Tiago Lopes

Doctoral researcher

Research: High and medium entropy alloys, interatomic potentials, radiation damage, nuclear fusion reactor materials

Office: Accelerator laboratory 125

Email: tiago.lopes@helsinki.fi

Olaia Mendiburu Vidaurreta

Doctoral researcher

Research: Magnetron sputtering deposition of silver thin films

Office: Accelerator laboratory 123a

Email: olaia.mendiburu@helsinki.fi

Lorenzo Miola

Research assistant

Research: Radiation damage under high flux in Si with simulations

Office: Accelerator laboratory 125

Email: lorenzo.miola@helsinki.fi

Franck Nadji Adjim

Doctoral researcher

Research:  Defect generation and engineering in two-dimensional materials upon sputter deposition of metal thin films

Office: Accelerator laboratory 117

E-mail:  franck.nadjiadjim@helsinki.fi

 

Rabia Nawaz

Doctoral researcher

Research:  Functional 2D nanomaterials by ion implantation

Office: Accelerator laboratory 125

E-mail:  rabia.nawaz@helsinki.fi

 

Igor Prozheev

Doctoral researcher

Research:  Modern alchemy of semiconducting nitrides with positrons, ions and x-rays in accelerators and synchrotrons

Office: Accelerator laboratory 104

Email: igor.prozheev@helsinki.fi

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Blaise Sanzone

Research intern

Research:  Real-time and in situ investigation on the effect of impurities on the morphological evolution of sputtered thin metal films

Office: Accelerator laboratory 125

Email: blaise.sanzone@helsinki.fi

 

Antonio Andrei Sofron

Research assistant

Research:  Positron spectroscopy software development

Office: Accelerator laboratory 116

Email: antonio.sofron@helsinki.fi

Marzhan Toktaganova

Doctoral researcher

Research: Simulation of diffusion of carbon on copper

Office: Accelerator laboratory 116

Email: marzhan.toktaganova@helsinki.fi

 

 

 

Markus Vuolahti

Visiting researcher

Research: Computational approach of hydrogen atomistic interactions (EU project HyWays)

Office: Accelerator laboratory 125

Email: markus.vuolahti@helsinki.fi

 

 

 

Tomi Vuoriheimo

Doctoral researcher

Research:  Experimental research on fusion reactor materials: irradiation damage; fuel retention and removal

Office: Accelerator laboratory 135c

Email: tomi.vuoriheimo@helsinki.fi

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Guanying Wei

Postdoctoral researcher

Research:  Modeling high-entropy alloys : helium effects and radiation damage

Office: Accelerator laboratory 123a

Email: guanying.wei@helsinki.fi

 

Jintong Wu

Doctoral researcher

Research:  The effect of irradiation in W, developing a scheme on how to conduct simulations of the high dose limit response with realistic dose rate of any material

Office: Accelerator laboratory 104

Emailjintong.wu@helsinki.fi

 

Fan Yang

Visiting doctoral researcher

Research:  Simulations on swift heavy ion irradiation effects in materials

Office: Accelerator laboratory 125

Emailfan.z.yang@helsinki.fi

 

Iuliia Zhelezova

Doctoral researcher

Office: Accelerator laboratory 117

Email: iuliia.zhelezova@helsinki.fi