| Name and title: | Tapio Tuomas RANTALA, PhD (FT, DI) |
| Position: | Professor of Physics at Tampere University (of Technology), since 2000
Adjunct Professor of Physics at University of Oulu, since 1989 |
| Date and place of birth: | 1955, Finland |
| Nationality: | Finnish |
| 1987 | PhD in Physics from the University of Oulu. Thesis title: Local-density electronic structure calculations on the spectra and reactiviy of metals. |
| 1984 | MSc in Engineering (major in Materials Physics) from the University of Oulu. Thesis title: Calculation of elastic x-ray scattering factors of Aluminium with density functional method. |
| 1978 | MSc in Physics from the University of Oulu. Thesis title: Relaxation energies in photo and Auger electron emission. |
| 2001-- | Path Integral Quantum Monte Carlo method and applications |
| 2000-- | Light--matter interaction in nanostructures |
| 1992-- | Metal oxides |
| 1989-- | Compound semiconductors and semiconductor clusters |
| 1984-- | Surface chemistry and physics |
| 1984--1999 | Structure and reactivity of metal clusters |
| 1988--1999 | Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics and ab initio studies of molecules |
| 1993--1998 | Modelling and simulation of biomolecules |
| 1987--1989 | Simulation of laser processing in microelectronics |
| 1981--1986 | Ab initio studies of electronic transitions in metals |
| 1977--1983 | Electron spectroscopy |
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1980-- 1993--1995, 2001--2006 2001--2003 2003--2005 |
Finnish Physical Society - member of the executive board - vice president - president - member of the computational physics section |
| 1986-- | European Physical Society |
| 1990-- | American Physical Society |
| 1998-- | Biophysical Society |
| 1990-- | Finnish Chemical Society
- member of the section for computational chemistry - member of the catalysis section |
| 1995-- | Materials Research Society (USA) |
| 1999-- | Finnish Optical Society |
| 1993--1994 | Electrochemical Society (USA) |
| 9.1984--8.1985 | Visiting Scientist at the Department of Physics at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. |
| 9.1989--8.1990 | Visiting Scientist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. |
| 1989 | Scientific qualification to the post of Associate Professor of Technical Physics, (Quantum Mechanics in particular) at the Helsinki University of Technology. |
| 1996 | Qualification and competence to the post of Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oulu (the second position in the short list of three best qualified applicants). |
| 1998 | Qualification and competence to the post of Associate Professor of Biophysics at the University of Oulu (the fourth position in the short list of four best qualified applicants). |
| 1999 | Qualification and competence to the post of Professor of Physics at the Tampere University of Technology (the first position in the short list of three best qualified applicants). |
| 2000 | Qualification and competence to the post of Professor of Physics at the University of Oulu (the second position in the short list of three best qualified applicants). |
| 2.2009--5.2009 | Visiting Scientist at the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. |
| 9.2009--10.2009 | Visiting Scientist at Laboratoire de Chimie Theorique, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. |