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Researchers across atmospheric chemistry, modelling, AI and inverse problems — at LUT University and the University of Helsinki.
Co-leader of AMC-LahtiSince 2023
Professor in Atmospheric Science and Applied Mathematics. Shared position between University of Helsinki, INAR, and LUT University, Department of Computational Engineering. Main…
michael.boy@helsinki.fi
Co-leader of AMC-LahtiSince 2023
Joined Computational Engineering, LUT in 2023. M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronical and Information Engineering (2016, 2020) from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.…
zhisong.liu@lut.fi
ProfessorSince 2023
Professor of applied mathematics at the Department of Computational Engineering, LUT University. Main field of interest: statistical inverse problems, especially Bayesian sampling…
heikki.haario@lut.fi
ProfessorSince 2025
Full professor of industrial mathematics at LUT since 2010, former vice-rector for research and innovation (2014–2024). Leads the CFD research team for industrial and…
jari.hamalainen@lut.fi
Associate ProfessorSince 2024
Associate professor and mathematician at LUT University. Research: applied mathematics, wave scattering and inverse problems.
emilia.blasten@lut.fi
Associate ProfessorSince 2025
Associate professor at LUT University. Research: chemical composition and evolution of atmospheric aerosols and their impacts on air quality and climate.
mikko.aijala@lut.fi
Post-docSince 2024
Post-doctoral urban air quality modelling researcher. Research: atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) processes. Current work: urban pollution modelling using SOSAA in urban areas.
taiwo.ashu@lut.fi
Post-docSince 2024
Specialised in atmospheric process model development. PhD work concentrated on source identification of atmospheric aerosols using SOSAA coupled with FLEXPART. Defended June 2025.
petri.clusius@helsinki.fi
PhD StudentSince 2023
Master's in Computational Engineering from LUT (2023). Doctoral studies at AMC Lahti since autumn 2023 on optimizing chemistry codes related to autoxidation of volatile organic…
valery.ashu@lut.fi
PhD StudentSince 2023
MSc in Air Pollution Management and Control (2020). Doctoral studies at AMC Lahti since autumn 2023 on the development of a multi-phase chemistry scheme by applying machine…
zeqi.cui@helsinki.fi
PhD StudentSince 2024
PhD student since 2024. Research: analysing atmospheric chemistry with deep learning and building surrogate models. Previously MSc in High-Performance Computing at EPCC,…
wenqing.peng@helsinki.fi
PhD StudentSince 2024
PhD student in Atmospheric Science at INAR (University of Helsinki), joined AMC in September 2024. Bachelor's in Environmental Engineering from Sichuan University, Master's from…
haitong.zhang@helsinki.fi
PhD StudentSince 2024
PhD student since 2024. Research: building neural network-based emulators to improve predictive models for air quality and Earth systems. Engineering background in Big Data and AI…
ammar.kheder@lut.fi
PhD StudentSince 2024
PhD student in computational sciences at LUT University since December 2024. MSc in mathematics (2024) and theoretical ecology (2025). Research: atmospheric modelling, transport…
jenni.koykka@lut.fi
PhD StudentSince 2024
PhD in Mathematics at LUT University since 2024. Research: Uncertainty and Computation in Acoustic Imaging of Pipes.
samuel.agenorwoth@lut.fi
Post-docSince 2024
Postdoctoral researcher at AMC-Lahti, supported by the Carlsberg Foundation Postdoc Fellowship. PhD at Lund University, defended 2024.
robin.wollesendejonge@helsinki.fi
Post-docSince 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher at INAR, University of Helsinki, joined AMC-Lahti in 2025. Research: autoxidation mechanisms via quantum chemistry calculations.
zihao.fu@helsinki.fi
PhD StudentSince 2025
Joined AMC-Lahti in May 2025. PhD student on physics-informed generative neural networks for climate downscaling at University of Helsinki, INAR. MSc in Data-Centric Engineering…
helmi.toropainen@helsinki.fi
PhD StudentSince 2025
PhD student in the air quality group at INAR, joined our collaboration in March 2025. Master's from Xiamen University.
xiang.li@helsinki.fi
Visiting Researcher
Post-docSince 2026
PhD in Chemical Engineering (IIT Roorkee, 2026). Research on non-spherical granular flow combining experiments, DEM simulations and machine learning.
praveen.dubey@lut.fi
InternSince 2026
Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from İzmir Institute of Technology. Focused on chemical rate optimization. Currently participating as an ERASMUS+ intern in the AMC Group (Sep. 2026…
Post-doc2023 – 2026
Ben obtained his PhD in June 2025. He studied severe air pollution events in megacities using FLEXPART-SOSAA. In June 2026, he started his postdoctoral research at Aarhus…
benjamin.foreback@helsinki.fi
Post-doc
PhD Student2025
Former PhD student at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Joined AMC-Lahti and worked there until October 2025.
PhD Student2025 – 2026
Former PhD student in Environmental Engineering at Beijing Normal University. Joined AMC-Lahti in January 2025.
