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Senior Researchers

Fevzihan Basarir

Dr., Marie Curie Fellow (Senior Researcher)

Background: Dr. Basarir is working as Marie Curie Fellow in the ‘Multifunctional Materials Design’ research group. He is a materials chemist specialized in nanomaterials and their applications in electronic devices. After graduating from Chemical Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University, he obtained his MSc degree in polymer science and PhD degree in nanotechnology from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. After obtaining his PhD degree, he joined Materials Institute of TUBITAK Marmara Research Center. During this period, he was involved in 11 national and international projects as project manager, work package leader or researcher. He is one of the founders of ‘Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Bioelectronics Center of Excellence’ which was supported by the Turkish Ministry of Development.
Dr. Basarir has experience of working in different R&D positions in textile, plastic, and chemical industry. Based on his R&D efforts, he has commercialized several key products. Dr. Basarir has published 3 patents, 28 SCI articles and 2 book chapters (as of July 2021).
Research area: His current project is aiming to create a wearable sensor system that could be used for continuous monitoring of hypothermia in elderly people. Ageing makes an individual susceptible to hypothermia, as one’s body loses heat faster than it can be produced, and this may lead to a dangerously low body temperature. His solution would enable care for the elderly in private homes with the help of wearable sensors based on cellulose hydrogel and metallic nanowires, which measure ECG signal, skin temperature and muscle activities. The average age of Europe’s population is growing year by year, constantly increasing the need for healthcare innovations in elderly care.
Hobbies: reading, movies, swimming
Contact information: [email protected]

Petri Murto

Ph.D., Academy Research Fellow

Background: Petri received his double PhD degree in Materials Science and Chemistry from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and Flinders University in Australia (Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers and Small Molecules for Organic Light-Emitting Devices and Photodetectors, 2019). He was a MSCA fellow and the first PhD candidate to initiate a cotutelle programme between Chalmers and Flinders, supervised by Prof. Ergang Wang and Prof. Mats Andersson, respectively. After his PhD, he joined University of Cambridge in the UK to work on luminescent radical semiconductors in the groups of Prof. Hugo Bronstein and Prof. Sir Richard Friend, supported by prestigious research grants such as the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (years 2019–2024). In 2024, he received the highly competitive Academy Research Fellowship from the Research Council of Finland (ranked 1st by the scientific panel) and started his independent research career at Aalto University.
Research area: His research focuses on development of organic semiconductors and finding new ways to utilise their magnetic, electronic and optical properties in optoelectronic applications. This covers light-emission and harvesting, charge transport and storage, and spin memory. He is particularly interested in organic radicals that contain an unpaired electron, spin doublet, in their ground state. Incorporation of radicals into conjugated molecules gives an unmatched level of synthetic tunability through which spin-spin and spin-optical interactions can be controlled. This is done in exclusively light materials that are free of costly/toxic metals.
Petri's interdisciplinary research merges experimental synthetic chemistry and computational chemistry tools as well as myriad characterisation methods which aid materials design for different target applications. He develops research topics that aim at answering global challenges in sustainable optoelectronics technology through collaboration in-house and externally with some of the world’s leading research groups in the field. Current project: Organic Radicals as Electrochemical and Photochemical Energy Materials (RADICHEM2).
Accomplishments: Petri has received major research grants from Finnish, Swedish and European funding bodies which have helped him lead his own research projects early in his career. He has developed collaborative research and published important contributions on synthesis of luminescent radicals and their photophysical studies and optoelectronic applications. These include JACS 2024, Nature 2024, Sci. Adv. 2024, Nat. Commun. 2023 and J. Mat. Chem. C 2022. His full research profile is available at research.aalto.fi; ORCID; Twitter/X.
Hobbies: Petri is a passionate photographer, and he mainly does film photography and film development that he updates on social media. Some of his scientific photos can be found on Cambridge and Chalmers websites (link). He also enjoys running, cooking and live music.
Contact information: [email protected]