Jari Kinaret

Professor & Head of Condensed Matter Theory Division at Department of Physics

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Jari Kinaret was born in Kokkola in Finland. He obtained M.Sc. degrees in theoretical physics (1986) and electrical engineering (1987) from the University of Oulu, before moving to MIT where he graduated with a PhD in physics in 1992. He has been active in Gothenburg since 1995, most recently as a professor and director for Chalmers’ Area of Advance Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. His research focuses on electrical and mechanical phenomena on the nanoscale, lately in systems that comprise carbon nanotubes or graphene.
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Published: Wed 13 Mar 2013. Modified: Thu 28 Jan 2016