CV Hilkka Timonen

• Atmospheric aerosol and emission studies (e.g. vehicles, non-mobile machinery, power plants)

• Aerosol composition, primary and secondary emissions

• Carbonaceous aerosols, Black carbon, Brown carbon

• Aerosol mass spectrometry

• Atmospheric nano- and microplastic particles

• Horizon Europe: Particle emission prevention and impact: from real-world emissions of traffic to secondary PM of urban air (PAREMPI - https://parempi.eu/)

• Horizon Europe: Impacts of low-carbon fuels on exhaust emissions in realworld conditions for hard-to-electrify traffic sectors (REALCHEM)

• Business Finland: BC, UFP, SOA and VOCs concentrations in Indoor and outdoor environments, sources and links between indoor and outdoor air quality (GIANT)

• H2020: Urban air quality, aerosol sources and novel tools based on data provided by infrastructures (https://riurbans.eu/)

• RCF: Abundance, characteristics and significance of nano- and microplastics in urban air (ACINMUA project - Finnish Meteorological Institute)

• RCF: Unlocking the mysteries of airborne nanoplastics using novel ultrasensitive optical measurement method (PlasticFinder)

• Business Finland: Non-exhaust emissions in electrifying mining and urban environment (NEX-EL project – Nexel project pages)

• H2020/SCIPPER, Shipping Contributions to Inland Pollution Push for the Enforcement of Regulations (https://www.scipper-project.eu/)

• Docent (Aerosol physics/aerosol composition analysis), Tampere University of Technology, 1.7.2016

• Ph.D in physics, University of Helsinki 2011

• M.Sc. in chemistry, University of Eastern Finland

• Visiting scientist at VTT Technical Research centre, 15.9.–31.12.2024

• Head of Aerosol Composition group, 1.1.2020->

• Senior research scientist at Finnish Meteorological institute, 2013–2020

• Visiting scientist at VTT Technical Research centre, 01.10.–31.12.2016

• Post-doctoral scientist at University of Washington, USA, 2011–2013

• Research scientist at Finnish Meteorological institute, Helsinki, Finland 2004–2011

• Researcher at Disperse Technologies plc., UK, 2001–2002

• Teaching assistant at University of Helsinki, 2000–2001

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