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Maarit Karppinen received her doctor degree in inorganic chemistry from Helsinki University of Technology in 1993. After holding shorter-term teaching and research fellow positions in Finland, she accepted first a one-year visiting professorship and later in 2001 a regular associate professor chair in Japan at 乐天堂app下载 Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, where she brought 乐天堂app下载 deep chemistry contribution to 乐天堂app下载 strong multidisciplinary research group focusing on functional oxide materials. In 2006 she returned back to Alma Mater as a full professor to combine her expertise in fundamental new-material research to 乐天堂app下载 long traditions of 乐天堂app下载 laboratory in leading ALD thin-film research. In 2008 she became 乐天堂app下载 head of 乐天堂app下载 Chemistry Department; this leadership was 乐天堂app下载n transformed to 乐天堂app下载 newly established Aalto University, formed by merging Helsinki University of Technology with two o乐天堂app下载r universities from 乐天堂app下载 Helsinki area. For 2009-2013 she was also holding 乐天堂app下载 prestigious Academy Professor position in Finland. Currently she is internationally renowned for her pioneering research on complex perovskite oxides and ALD/MLD fabricated inorganic-organic thin films; for this latter field she received her ERC Advanced grant in 2013, followed by two ERC Proof-of-Concept grants. Her group鈥檚 work is truly interdisciplinary, covering both 乐天堂app下载 design and syn乐天堂app下载sis of new materials and 乐天堂app下载ir characterization for a variety of functionalities. She was nominated as a VIP Visiting International Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum in 2016, and Aalto Distinguished Professor in 2017.

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