Jukka Ketoja is new Adjunct Professor
Jukka Ketoja has recently start working part time as an Adjunct Professor of FSCN research centre. His research areas are fibre products and processes, cellulose structure, rheology, new material applications, transport phenomena and modelling.
He will cooperate for example with Amanda Mattsson, Dr in papers physics and Tove Joelsson, industry employed PhD student in FORIC, More Research. We wish him welcome and hope he will enjoy working with us. He has started to work remotely due to the corona pandemic.
“I started my career in the research area of paper physics and I have been working in the research area of fibre products since 1998. The last ten years I have been working, and still are working, at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland as Principal scientist for cellulose-based product solutions,” says Jukka Ketoja.
Jukka Ketoja holds a Docent in Physics, Fibre Products and Suspensions, at Aalto University, School of Chemical Technology. Due to the big transition in the forest industry with declining paper research he has been working a lot with developing of new fibre-based products to replace fossil-based plastics and find sustainable solutions for future needs.
“Our research field with fibre-based products are tackling the problem in the society in a very important way and I really enjoy working with this research area, says Jukka Ketoja. In the research cooperation with Mid Sweden University I hope to bring theoretical considerations to the research developed at Mid Sweden University. We have already started to work with Tove Joelsson and Amanda Mattsson, witha lot of interesting data to analyze, and it has been a really good start for our cooperation.”
The goal is to understand how lignin contributes to better performance of the products. Tove Joelsson et al. have in their experiments shown good results when pressing the fibre materials from mechanical pulp under high temperatures, and the research cooperation will take a look at this experimental data to see the underlying mechanisms. The idea is to try to perform calculations and simulations around this data in order to be able to explain how lignin can contribute to improving the properties. In addition to this, they plan to do microscopy studies of the material treated in different ways and then be able to correlate these characterisations with the theoretical work.
There will be a research workshop hosted by Mid Sweden University for all employees of FSCN research centre on January 29. Please contact Amanda Mattsson if you are interested to join.