Mikko Karttunen, Professor
Contact Information
Office: ChB 123
Tel: (519) 661-2111 x86335
E-mail: mkarttu@uwo.ca
Group Website
Research Areas
Computational chemistry & biological physicsResearch Interests
My research focuses on the properties of biological & soft matter using theory and the methods of computational chemistry and physics. Typical systems are at the interface between materials science, biology & biomedical sciences. I am interested in problems such as lipid diffusion, sterols, bacterial toxins, membrane proteins, antibiotics, translocation of DNA, peptides and sugars. I am also working on magnetic materials, pattern formation and non-equilibrium dynamics.
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Publications
- Davies, M., Reyes-Figueroa, A.D., Gurtovenko, A.A., Frankel, D., Karttunen, M. “Elucidating lipid conformations in the ripple phase: Machine learning reveals four lipid populations” (2023) Biophysical Journal, 122 (2), pp. 442-450. DOI:10.1016/j.bpj.2022.11.024
- Behbahani, R., Yazdani Sarvestani, H., Fatehi, E., Kiyani, E., Ashrafi, B., Karttunen, M., Rahmat, M. “Machine learning-driven process of alumina ceramics laser machining” (2023) Physica Scripta, 98 (1), art. no. 015834. DOI:10.1088/1402-4896/aca3da
- Mazarei, M., Åström, J., Westerholm, J., Karttunen, M. “In silico testing of the universality of epithelial tissue growth” (2022) Physical Review E, 106 (6), art. no. L062402. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.106.L062402
- Kiyani, E., Silber, S., Kooshkbaghi, M., Karttunen, M. “Machine-learning-based data-driven discovery of nonlinear phase-field dynamics” (2022) Physical Review E, 106 (6), art. no. 065303. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.106.065303
Teaching
Graduate:
SC 9502: Scientific Computing
Chemistry 9664: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Awards
- 2017: Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Computational Materials and Biomaterials Research
- 2009: Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, Discovery Accelerator Award
- 2009: Faculty of Science Distinguished Research Professor, U. Western Ontario, London
- 2008: The Province of Ontario Early Researcher Award
- 2007: DEISA EU High Performance Computing Award
- 2004: Young Center of Excellence Award, Helsinki University of Technology
Professional Activities
- Associate Editor: Journal of Biological Physics, Advances in Physics X
- Review Editor: Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
- Associate Editor: PeerJ
- Review panels:
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- NSERC, Research Tools and Instruments
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) •
- Reviewer for:
- National Science Foundation (USA)
- European Union
- Academy of Finland
- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
- Austrian Academy of Science
- Czech Academy of Sciences
- Slovak Academy of Sciences
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development of Chile