Get acquainted with our new colleague, assoc. prof. Markus Miettinen!
I was born and raised in a small village called Juankoski in the North-Eastern parts of the Finnish lake district. The village was socially an interesting place, as it had just 2000 inhabitants, but two rather large factories, and was surrounded by tens of kilometers of just forest, lakes, and small farms. I really liked growing up there, and still have a cabin (and two saunas) on a half-a-hectare island 5 kilometers from the center of Juankoski, where I like to go as often as possible.For university I moved to Helsinki, to study in Helsinki University of Technology, where I obtained my PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics. After that I moved to Berlin, where I did post docs in groups doing Biochemistry and Theoretical Physics, and then was a group leader at the MPI of Colloids and Interfaces for 4 years before moving to Bergen.
My scientific peculiarity is my interest in Open Science, which I have been exercising for the last 9+ years in the NMRlipids Project (nmrlipids.blogspot.fi). Outside of science, you might enjoy knowing the three fascinating factoids that (1) I have published a bunch of comic strips describing the life of a rabbit, who moves to Helsinki from the North-Eastern parts of the Finnish lake district; (2) I have two furless cats; and (3) my wife is a chef, so I am forced to regularly fine-dine so she can stay up-to-date of what is going on in the culinary world.
Cheers,
markus.
