Jaakko Timonen
Short bio: Doctoral degree from Aalto (2013), postdoc at Northwestern (2013-2014) and Harvard (2014-2016). Tenure track professor at Aalto (2016-), Academy of Finland Research Fellow (2019-2023), Vice-head of the department (2020-) and Deputy director of the Center of Excellence in Life-Inspired Hybrid Materials LIBER (2022-). Recipient of ERC StG (2019-2024). Leader of the Active Matter group. Interested in everything where physics meets chemistry and biology. Big fan of advanced optical microscopy and constructing unique imaging systems. Always interested to discuss new ideas with students and early career researchers. Selected examples of completed and on-going research projects below (many done together with amazing collaborators):
Magnetic liquids (ferrofluids)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1233775
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0250-8
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi8990
Electrohydrodynamics
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abh1642
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2522
Living matter
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02949
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05951
Proteins, liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590006422002903
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-022-00249-z
Liquid droplets, capillary phenomena and fluid dynamics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-023-01268-z
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.244503
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aba5197
Slippery liquid infused porous surfaces (SLIPS)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys4177
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031053
Magnetic control of non-magnetic colloids and living cells
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201506072
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201603516
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/nh/c6nh00104a
Colloids chemistry and nanoparticles
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201005600
Full list of publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=U8x_gL8AAAAJ&hl=en
Full research profile
https://research.aalto.fi/en/persons/646aaccc-3b40-49a5-a432-299dece88389