Doctoral Defences
LIBER COE includes almost 40% doctoral students, and there are several public doctoral dissertations each year. You can find the upcoming and past doctoral defenses on this page.
Upcoming Doctoral Defences
- Title of the thesis: DNA Origami as a Tool for Assembling Functional Biohybrid Nanomaterials. Doctoral student: Sofia Julin, Date: 08.12.2023
- Title of the thesis: Computational modelling of adsorption and aggregation in bio-oils at multiple length scales. Doctoral student: Maisa Vuorte, Date: 12.12.2023
- Title of the doctoral thesis: Critical study of contact angle goniometry. Doctoral student: Tommi Huhtamäki, Date: 12.01.2024
- Title of the doctoral thesis: Exploring structural diversity in quorum sensing signalling systems and strategies to control prokaryotic community-wide behaviour. Doctoral student: Christopher Jonkergouw, Date: 19.01.2024
- Title of the doctoral thesis: Droplet friction on heterogeneous surfaces. Doctoral student: Sakari Lepikko, Date: 09.02.2024
- Title of the doctoral thesis: TBD. Doctoral student: Alex Berdin. Date: xx.02.2024
- Title of the doctoral thesis: Exploring silk protein assembly mechanisms for high-performance materials. Doctoral student: Teemu Välisalmi, Date: 01.03.2024
Past Doctoral Defences
- Title of the thesis: Hybrid Architectures at the Nanoscale: Constructing Materials through Electrostatic Interactions. Doctoral student: Ahmed Shaukat, Date: 10.11.2023
- Title of the thesis: Photoluminescent Gold Nanoclusters in Soft Matrices. Doctoral student: Shaochen Zhou, Date: 29.6.2023
- Title of the thesis: Superhydrophobic metrology and applications. Doctoral student: Heikki Nurmi, Date: 13.01.2023
- Title of the thesis: Molecules responding to red light are the key to next-generation medicine and materials. Doctoral student: Kim Kuntze, Date: 01.09.2023
- Title of the thesis: Molecular Simulations of Reverse Micelles. Doctoral student: Sampsa Vierros, Date: 11.11.2022
- Title of the thesis: Polyhydroxyalkanoate production in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Doctoral student: Anna Ylinen, Date: 02.09.2022
- Title of the thesis: Molecular assembly routes for biological materials. Doctoral student: Laura Lemetti, Date: 10.06.2022
- Title of the thesis: Polymer and gel networks - From self-assembly to structure, properties, and application. Doctoral student: Kia Bertula, Date: 04.03.2022
- Title of the thesis: Self-assembly and Pattern Formation - From Nanoconfined Ion Transport in Liquid Crystals to Dissipative Pattern Formation in Electroferrofluids. Doctoral student: Tomy Cherian, Date: 04.02.2022