Kari Lehtinen, Professor, Dean

Kari Lehtinen received his degrees (M.Sc. 1992, Lic. Tech. 1993, Ph.D. 1997) at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Dept. Technical Physics. Before becoming Professor of Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry he was assistant of mechanics and computational dynamics at HUT, a researcher and a senior researcher at VTT Energy and a senior researcher and a university lecturer at Helsinki University, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences. He was a visiting scientist in UCLA Los Angeles in 1994-1995 and University of Minnesota Minneapolis in 2000-2001.

The professorship is a joint position between UEF and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). In 2004-2013 Lehtinen was head of FMI Kuopio Unit, a research unit with research groups in atmospheric modeling, measurements and radiation as well as aviation and military weather service. Since then, from Jan 2014, he has been the head of UEF Department of Applied Physics. In addition, he currently leads the multidisciplinary research community ‘Climate forcing Ecosystems and Health (CLEHE)’ at UEF, which includes researchers from applied physics, environmental sciences, chemistry, forest sciences and climate law.

His main research interests are aerosol microphysics theory and modeling related to various applications in atmospheric science and climate change, nanomaterial synthesis and environmental health.

Kari Lehtinen has published more than 200 peer reviewed international journal Articles (3 in Science) and supervised 22 Ph.D. theses.  He is an editor of ‘Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics’ and a member of FAAR, GAEF, AAAR and AGU. His teaching experience includes courses in computational dynamics, aerosol physics and dynamics, transport phenomena, statistical physics as well as basic undergraduate physics.

Email: kari.lehtinen (at) uef.fi
Puhelin: +358 40 867 7844

 

KUOPION KAMPUS

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