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The newest PhD from Matter lab: Roni Aleksi Koitermaa!

On 10th of October, Roni Aleksi Koitermaa defended his doctoral thesis “Nanoscale Multiphysics Simulations of Vacuum Arc Initiation” in the field of materials science. The defence took place at the University of Helsinki. 📖 Supervisors:Professor Veronika Zadin, University of TartuAssociate Professor Andreas Kyritsakis, University of TartuResearch Fellow Tauno Tiirats, University of TartuProfessor Flyura Djurabekova, University of Helsinki🎓 Opponent:Christopher Hudson Moore, PhD, Sandia […]

Elyad Damerchi, PhD!

Elyad Damerchi has successfully defended his PhD “Heat-Induced Morphological and Structural Changes in Nanostructures” and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science. In his doctoral work, Elyad investigated how temperature, heating time, nanowire diameter, contact with a supporting surface, and repeated heating and cooling influence the thermal stability of metallic nanowires. The […]

Visitor to Matter lab!

On the 8th of September, Matter lab and Institute of Technology got a nice visit from Finland: host professor Mika Pettersson! Follow this post to learn more from his visit! Prof. Pettersson has a distinguished international academic career and a strong background in multidisciplinary nanoscience and physical chemistry with the focus on (nonlinear) spectroscopy and […]

Eesti teadlane aitab CERNile luua järgmise põlvkonna osakestekiirendit

Tartu Ülikooli tehnoloogiainstituudi materjalitehnoloogia professor Veronika Zadin pendeldab Tartu ja Genfi vahel päris tihti. Ta nimetab ennast kiirendifüüsikuks ning tema teadus on suunatud kiirendi arendamisele, töökindlusele ja seal kasutatavatele materjalidele omaduste tundma õppimisele. CERN on Veronika arvates otsekui meepott, mis tõmbab ligi nutikaid inimesi tervest maailmast. Loe rohkem SIIT!

Mart Ernits, PhD!

🎉Mart Ernits successfully defended his doctoral thesis in Biomedical Technology titled “Microfluidic Production and Characterization of Liposomes Towards Localized Payload Release”. The thesis was supervised by Associate Professor Veikko Linko, Professor Veronika Zadin, Associate Professor Andreas Kyritsakis and Research Fellow Olavi Reinsalu. Opponent: Associate Professor Fernando Benito López, Vice-Rector for Faculty and Research EUNEIZ Universidad, […]

Mart Ernits will defend his thesis 28.05.2026

He will defend his doctoral thesis “Microfluidic Production and Characterization of Liposomes Toward Localized Payload Release” to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Technology). 💊 Mart’s research focuses on advancing drug delivery technologies through microfluidics. Liposomes—nanoscale lipid vesicles—are widely used as carriers for therapeutic compounds due to their biocompatibility and versatility. However, conventional production […]

Invisible wires will make the future?

If you got intrigued and want to find out, read the article about nanowires written by our team’s PhD student Elyad Damerchi. The article explains easily how to turn silver nanosized wires into reliable see-through conductors. The article can be found from Research in Estonia webpage!

A new publication in Ultramicroscopy!

Ehsan Moradpur-Tari, Andreas Kyritsakis, Mohadeseh Karimkhah and Veronika Zadin have published a new article “A correlation-based optimization model to recover lost and distorted data from scanning tunneling microscopy images based on density functional theory”. If you are interested in what they found out and what are they proposing, go and have a read!

MATTERlab team on the loose!

In October and November, some of the MATTER team members visited colleagues in Latvia and France! On 28th of October, colleagues from University of Latvia (in Riga) greeted professor Veronika Zadin and MATTER team members Ankur Singh and Tauno Tiirats, to foresee several joint experimental and computational directions. Full post on LinkedIn here! From 19th […]