Kalle-Antti Suominen Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku

Personal data:

• Current employment:
  • Professor in Physics, University of Turku, Finland
• Official personal home page in Turku.
• Research group web page in Turku.
• Publication list
• Recipient of the Magnus Ehrnrooth Prize (2001) and the Vilho, Yrjö and Kalle Väisälä Prize (2005).
• Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (chairman of the physics and astronomy section).
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K.)
  
• Member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.
• Docent in theoretical physics at the University of Helsinki.
• Formerly the chairman of the Finnish Physical Society (March 2007 - March 2008).
• Formerly the treasurer of the Finnish Optical Society (2000-2005).
• Co-author of the book Quantum Approach to Informatics with Stig Stenholm.

Research interests:

• Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC)

• Interactions between laser-cooled and trapped atoms

• Creation and time evolution of molecular wave packets

• Time-dependent quantum systems

• Open quantum systems and quantum information

Contact Information:

• Phone: +358-2-3335782
• Fax: +358-2-3335070
• Email: Kalle-Antti.Suominen@utu.fi
• Institute: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku
• Street address: Vesilinnantie 5, Yliopistonmäki, 20500 Turku, Finland
• Postal address: 20014 Turun yliopisto, Finland
• Office location: Quantum, room 144