Department of Applied Physics

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• Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters

  Puska, Martti (Recipient), 2006

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters (by election)

  Pekola, Jukka (Recipient), 2001

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• Member of the Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences (by election)

  Pekola, Jukka (Recipient), 2001

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• Member of the Finnish Academy of Technology

  Törmä, Päivi (Recipient), 2011

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• Millenium Graduate Student 2022 First Prize (Sanaz Golkhatmi)

  Lund, Peter (Supervising professor), 7 Nov 2022

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• Millennium Distinction Award, Technology Academy Finland

  van Dijken, Sebastiaan (Recipient), 2015

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• Nanotech Finland Award of 2010 by TEKES, Finland, for a Remarkable Scientific Breakthrough in the Field of Nanotechnology.

  Kauppinen, Esko (Recipient), 2010

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• National College New Energy Vehicle Big Data Application Innovation Competition

  Lund, Peter (Supervising professor), 5 Jan 2020

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• nimitetty Full Professor kutsumenettelyllä Aalto University, Finland

  Pekola, Jukka (Recipient), 2012

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• Nokia Foundation Recognition Award 2020

  Möttönen, Mikko (Recipient), 26 Nov 2020

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

  • Award 100%
  • Recognition 100%
  • Foundation 100%
  • Finland 20%
  • Utilization 20%

• Nominated for the Mary Keyes Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service to McMaster University

  Backholm, Matilda (Recipient), 2014

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• Nordita Corresponding Fellow 2001-2004

  Alava, Mikko (Recipient), 2001

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Achievement Award – Solid State Lighting & Energy Center, University of California at Santa Barbara

  Rinke, Patrick (Recipient), 2009

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society (2011, 8th Finnish physicist)

  Alava, Mikko (Recipient), 2011

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• Outstanding Referee American Physical Society, United States

  Nieminen, Risto (Recipient), 2008

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• Outstanding Referee of Physical Review and Physical Review Letters

  Rinke, Patrick (Recipient), 2014

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• Overseas Postdoctoral Fellowship

  Beppu, Kazusa (Recipient), 10 Mar 2023

  Prize: Granted funding (personal grants)

• PLANCKS 2017

  Välimaa, Alpo (Recipient), 2017

  Prize: Invitation or ranking in competition

• Postdoc-mobility fellowship

  Scacchi, Alberto (Recipient), 2022

  Prize: Granted funding (personal grants)

  • Mobility 100%
  • Binary Systems (Materials) 100%

• Poster Recognition Award (Nanoenergy 2017)

  Lund, Peter (Supervising professor), 21 Jul 2017

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• Prize for excellent PhD thesis by Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

  Hakonen, Pertti (Recipient), 1987

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• Prize for teaching excellence, Aalto School of Science, 2014 (for the physics education reform)

  Alava, Mikko (Recipient), 2014

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• Prize for the Best Ph.D Thesis in the field of Technical Sciences

  Ruokolainen, Janne (Recipient), 2001

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

  • Thesis 100%
  • Finland 100%

• Publons Top Reviewer in Chemistry 2018

  Nonappa, Nonappa (Recipient), 12 Sept 2018

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• Publons Top Reviewer in Materials Science 2018

  Nonappa, Nonappa (Recipient), 12 Sept 2018

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  • Materials Science 100%

• QTF Annual Discovery Prize 2020

  Karimi, Bayan (Recipient), 2020

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• Research Council of Finland Research Fellowship

  Backholm, Matilda (Recipient), 2023

  Prize: Granted funding (personal grants)

• Sentinels of Science Top Reviewer Awards

  Nonappa, Nonappa (Recipient), 16 Sept 2017

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• Simon Memorial Prize

  Pekola, Jukka (Recipient), 2020

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

  • Cryogenics 100%
  • Work 50%
  • Nanoscale 50%
  • Achievement 50%
  • Thermodynamics 50%

• Simon Prize German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany

  Volovik, Grigory (Recipient), 2010

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• Special Prize at Estonian National Contest for University Students for the PhD thesis

  Heinsoo, Johannes (Recipient), 2019

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

  • Theses 100%
  • University Students 100%
  • Estonian 100%
  • Thesis 100%
  • Student 100%

• Suomen Valkoisen Ruusun I luokan ritarimerkki / Riddartecknet av I klass av Finlands Vita Ros orden The President of the Republic, Finland

  Pekola, Jukka (Recipient), 2013

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• The 2008 Aggarwal Lecture, Cornell University (USA), May 20-21, 2008

  Ikkala, Olli (Recipient), 2008

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• The 2011 IUPAP C5 Young Scientist Prize in Low Temperature Physics Internation Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Iso-Britannia

  Sillanpää, Mika (Recipient), 2011

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• the Knight, First Class, of the order of White Rose of Finland Government of Finland, Finland

  Krusius, Franz (Recipient), 2003

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• The McMaster University School of Graduate Studies International Excellence Award

  Backholm, Matilda (Recipient), 2012

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• The McMaster University School of Graduate Studies International Excellence Award

  Backholm, Matilda (Recipient), 2014

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• Theodor Homén Prize

  Pekola, Jukka (Recipient), 2016

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• The Order of the White Rose of Finland, Knight of First Class from President of Finland

  Ikkala, Olli (Recipient), 2010

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• The Ruth and Nils-Erik Stenbäck Prize for career accomplishments in science

  Backholm, Matilda (Recipient), 2017

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• The Ruth and Nils-Erik Stenbäck Prize for career accomplishments in science

  Backholm, Matilda (Recipient), 2024

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• The Simon Memorial Prize The Institute of Physics, UK

  Volovik, Grigory (Recipient), 2004

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• Thesis Prize - Institute of Physics (UK) Computational Physics Group

  Rinke, Patrick (Recipient), 2003

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• The Young Researcher Entrepreneur 2020

  Tan, Kuan (Recipient) & Goetz, Jan (Recipient), 25 Feb 2021

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

  • Quantum Computer 100%
  • Accuracy 50%
  • Technology 50%
  • Speed 50%
  • Computational 50%

• The Young Researcher Entrepreneur 2020 award

  Tan, Kuan (Recipient) & Goetz, Jan (Recipient), 25 Feb 2021

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

  • Young 100%
  • Award 100%
  • Entrepreneur 100%
  • Quantum Computer 100%
  • Science and Technology 25%

• Top peer reviewer in Cross-Field 2019

  Nonappa, Nonappa (Recipient), 17 Sept 2019

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  • Data Base 100%

• Top Reviewer for Finland

  Nonappa, Nonappa (Recipient), 16 Sept 2017

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

• TOYP (The Outstanding Young Person) Finland award, Junior Chamber International Finland

  Törmä, Päivi (Recipient), 2006

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

• UNESCO Nanoscience Award 2018

  Kauppinen, Esko (Recipient), 22 Nov 2018

  Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

  • Nanotechnology 100%
  • Scientific Organizations 100%
  • Educational Organizations 100%
  • United Nations 100%
  • Award 100%

• Väisälä award

  Liljeroth, Peter (Recipient), 12 Dec 2016

  Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

  • Research 100%
  • Europeans 100%