Curriculum vitae
Helmi-Marja Kaisu Keskinen
Bächlerstrasse 7
8046 Zurich
Tel. +358445286124
+41765467803
e-mail. helmi.keskinen@tut.fi:
helmi-marja.keskinen@ptl.mavt.ethz.fi
Born in Tampere 24.3.1978
Education
Driver Licence B 18.7.1997
Matriculation examination, Kontiolahti upper secondary school 31.5.1997
Master of Science in Technology 25.1.2002
Major subject: Material chemistry
Thesis required for a diploma: Formation and properties of nanoparticles produced by Liquid Flame Spray (degree: 4, very good)
Ph D Thesis: Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Preparation of Deposits by Liquid Flame Spray (degree: 5; excellent)
Work experience
City of Joensuu, environment department
Assistant in environmental protection department 2.6.1997- 2.8.1997
Tampere University of Technology
Institute of Physics, Aerosol laboratory
Research assistant 16.5.2000- 5.8.2000
1.9.2000-1.01.2002
Institute of Physics
Assistant teacher 1.1.2002-30.4.2002
Assistant teacher 1.9.2004- 31.5.2007
Researcher 1.2.2002-
Post-graduate 1.3.2002- 22.8.2007
Major subject: Technical physics
Subject for Ph.D.: Synthesis of nanoparticles and nanoparticle deposits by Liquid Flame Spray
Post-doc: 22.8.2007-
Visitor at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) 15.9.2007-
Language proficiency
English, good
Swedish, basics
French, basics
Academies
Finnish Association for Aerosol research 2002-
The association of Finnish Chemical Societies 2002-
Association for Aerosol Research 2004-
American Institute of Chemical Engineering 2005-
Material research society 2005-
Grants
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters: 2003, traveling grant for four months to Czech Republic Science Academy(5700e), 2004 scholarship for six months(1.4.-30.9.2004) (7000e), 2005 traveling grant for two weeks to Czech Republic Science Academy (1300e), personal grant (3000e) and 2006 traveling grant for two weeks to Czech Republic Science Academy (1300e).
Finnish Academy: 2003, researcher exchange program with Finnish Academy and Czech Republic Science Academy for four months (700e). 2007-2008, scholarship for research exchange to ETH, Zürich (14 400).
Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (GAeF) -Association for Aerosol Research – 2005 Travel grant for European Aerosol Conference (250e).
Publications
1. Mäkelä J. M., Keskinen H., Forsblom T. and Keskinen J. Generation of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles by Liquid Flame Spray Process (2004), Journal of Material Science Vol.15 Issue 8, p. 2783.
2. Keskinen H., Mäkelä J. M., Vippola M., Nurminen M., Liimatainen J. K., Lepistö T., and Keskinen J. Generation of Silver/Palladium Nanoparticles by Liquid Flame Spray (2004), Journal of Material Research 19, Number 5, pp. 1544-1550.
3. Keskinen H., Moravec P., Smolík J., Levdansky V. V., Mäkelä J. M. and Keskinen J. Preparation of ZrO2 Fine Particles by CVD Process: Thermal Decomposition of Zirconium Tert-butoxide vapour (2004), Journal of Material Science Letters 39, 4923-4929.
4. Pitkänen, J. M. Mäkelä, M. Nurminen, A. Oksanen, K. Janka, J. Keskinen, H. Keskinen, J. K. Liimatainen, S. Hellsten and T. Määttä. Numerical study of silica particle formation in turbulent H2/O2 flame (2005), IRFR Combust. J., Article No 200509.
5. Keskinen H., Mäkelä J.M., Aromaa M., Ristimäki J., Kanerva T., Levänen E., Mäntylä T. and Keskinen J. Effect of silver addition on the formation and deposition of titania nanoparticles produced by Liquid Flame Spray, Journal of Nanoparticle Research Vol. 9, No. 4. pp. 569-588.
6. Keskinen H., Mäkelä J. M., Aromaa M., Keskinen J., Areva S., Cilâine V. T., Rosenholm J.B., Pore V., Ritala M., Leskelä M., Raulio M.,Salkinoja-Salonen M. S., Levänen E. and Mäntylä T., Deposition of Titania and Titania-Silver Nanoparticles made by Liquid Flame Spray and Their functionality as a Photocatalyst for organic- and biofilm removal, Catalysis Letters, vol. 111, pp.127-132, 2006.
7. M. Aromaa, H. Keskinen, J. M. Mäkelä, The Effect of Process Parameters on the Liquid Flame Spray Generated Titania Nanoparticles, Accepted will be published in Biomolecular Engineering 2007.
8. Moravec P., Keskinen H., Smolík J., Levdansky V. V. and Mäkelä J. M, ZrO2/SiO2 fine particle synthesis by MOCVD, Accepted will be published in CVD Journal 2007.
9. Moravec P., Keskinen H., Smolík J., Levdansky V. V. and Mäkelä J. M, Vapor phase synthesis of zirconia fine particles from zirconium tetra-tert-butoxide, Accepted will be published in Aerosol and Air Quality Research 2007.
10. Keskinen H., Mäkelä J. M., Heikkinen R., Suopanki A., and Keskinen J., Synthesis of Pd–alumina and Pd–lanthana Suspension for Catalytic Applications by One-step Liquid Flame Spray, Catalysis Letters, DOI10.1007/s10562-007-9218-2.
11. Sainemi L., Keskinen H., Aromaa M., Luosujärvi L., Grigoras K., Kotiaho T., Mäkelä J. M., and Franssila S., Rapid Fabrication of High Aspect Ratio Silicon Nanopillars for Chemical Analysis, Accepted will be published in Nanotechnology 2007.
Referred Proceedings
1. Moravec P., Smolík J., Levdansky V.V., Keskinen H. CVD Synthesis of Multicomponent Nanosized Particles in an Externally Heated Tube Flow Reactor. (Eng) In: Nanostructured Materials and Their Applications. (Szymanski, W.W. - Wagner, P.E. - Itoh, M., Ed.), pp. 9-19, Facultas Verlags, Wien 2004.
2. H. Keskinen , J.M. Mäkelä S. Hellsten, M. Aromaa, E. Levänen and T. Mäntylä Generation of Titania Nanoparticles by Liquid Flame Spray for Photocatalytic Applicatons (2005), reviewed paper to EUROCVD-15, Electrochemical Soc. Proceedings Vol. 2005-09, 491-498.
Easy-to-understand articles and interviews
18.6.2007 Interview (direct) (7 min) by Seppo Lehtonen to YLE Tampere radio ‘Easy-to-clean titania surfaces’
Article in Tekhne (Vol 3; 2007) by Suvi Vuorinen ‘Nanoteknologiastako apua kodin siivoukseen? ’