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Dr. Tatu Kumpulainen
Senior lecturer (at JYU, Finland)
Current address and contact details:
Department of Chemistry
University of Jyväskylä
P.O. Box 35
FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
Email: tatu.s.kumpulainen(at)jyu.fi
Tel: +358 50 441 0267
Tatu Kumpulainen was born in 1985 in Kuopio, Finland. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in 2010 at the Tampere University of Technology while working in the group of Prof. Helge Lemmetyinen. He obtained a PhD in chemistry in 2015 at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the group of Prof. Fred Brouwer. The PhD work was awarded the HRSMC Dick Stufkens prize for the best PhD thesis in 2015. After obtaining the PhD, he moved to University of Geneva, Switzerland, where he worked as a post-doctoral researcher during 2015–2017 in the group of Prof. Eric Vauthey. From 2018 he was an Ambizione fellow at the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva. Since October 2020, he works as a senior lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä where he is setting up a research group focusing on studies on excited-state proton-transfer reactions in liquid phase and heterogeneous media.
Short CV
EDUCATION
10/2010–05/2015: PhD in Chemistry, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Advisor: Prof. Fred Brouwer
Thesis: Proton-Transfer Reactions in “Super” Photoacids and Supramolecular Assemblies.
10/2004–04/2010: MSc/Bsc in Science and Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
Advisor: Prof. Helge Lemmetyinen
MSc thesis: Electron Transfer Reaction in Phthalocyanine-Fullerene Dyads.
BSc thesis: Spectroscopic Investigations of Porphyrin Derivatives.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
10/2020–present: Senior lecturer, Department of Chemistry/Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
01/2018–09/2020: Research associate (SNSF Ambizione fellow), Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
05/2015–12/2017: Post-doctoral researcher in the Ultrafast Photochemistry Group (supervisor Prof. Eric Vauthey), Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
10/2010–04/2015: PhD researcher in the Molecular Photonics Group (supervisor Prof. Fred Brouwer), van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
05/2007–12/2009: Research assistant in the Supramolecular Photochemistry Group (supervisor Prof. Helge Lemmetyinen), Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
OTHER ACADEMIC MERITS
Memberships in scientific societies and positions of trust
Young Academy Finland (YAF), member (nominated) for the term of 2017–2021, board member for the term of 2017-2018
Academy Club by Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, member (nominated), 2017–2018
Swiss Chemical Society (SCS), member since 2016, board member of the Photochemistry Section since 2018
European Photochemistry Association (EPA), member since 2011
Referee for scholarly journals
Reviewed for: J. Phys. Chem. Lett.; Chem. – Eur. J.; J. Phys. Chem.; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.; Photochem. & Photobiol. Sci.; Dyes Pigm.; Helv. Chim. Acta; Chem; Chem. Phys. Lett. etc (see Publons profile)
Grants, PRIZES AND AWARDS
2018 SNSF Ambizione fellowship
2017 Poster award at the ICP2017 symposium, Strasbourg, France
2015 HRSMC Dick Stufkens prize for the best PhD thesis in 2015, The Netherlands
2015 Personal grant by Olga and Vilho Linnamo foundation, Finland
2014 Incentive grant by Tekniikan Edistämissäätiö, Finland
2010 MSc with distinction, Finland