Kari Rissanen#

Personal data

Kari Tapani Rissanen, Academy Professor, Ph.D., FRSC
Born 29.11.1959, married, four children

Present employment: Academy Professor, The Academy of Finland, on leave from Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

• Chemistry studies, University of Jyväskylä, 1980 * 1985
• M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, 18.12.1985, University of Jyväskylä.
• Ph.Lic. in Inorganic Chemistry, 3.6.1987, University of Jyväskylä. .
• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 14.3.1990, “X-ray Structural Studies on Organochlorine and Organobromine compounds” University of Jyväskylä.

Medals

• Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (SVR R 1), 6.12.2008

Major scientific posts

• Deputy assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, 1985-1986
• Assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, 1986 - 1990.
• Assistant Professor (Senior Assistant), Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, 1990*1993.
• Reseach Fellow, Finnish Academy, 1988-1991 (on leave from the above Assistantship and Assistant Professorship).
• Senior Reseach Fellow, Finnish Academy, 1991-1993 (on leave from Assistant Professsorship)
• Docent in Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, 1991 – 1995 (terminated due to the professorship in the same faculty)
• Professor in Organic Chemistry, 1993*1995, University of Joensuu
• Senior Scientist Grant, A23 salary class, Finnish Academy, 1.8.1995 - 31.7.1996.
• Senior Scientist, A30 salary class, Finnish Academy, 1.8.2000 – 31.7.2001
• Full Professor in Organic Chemistry, 1.11.1995 - present, University of Jyväskylä
• Academy Professor, 1.1.2008 – 31.12.2012, The Academy of Finland

Scientific prizes, memberships and positions of trust

• Ph. D. Thesis Prize (3364 €), Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1991
• Magnus Ehrnrooth Prize in Chemistry (12 000 €), Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2005
• Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society (2005->)
• A member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (2004 ->)
• A member of the German Chemical Society (DGCh)
• A member of Finnish-French Technical Society (2005->)
• A member of American Chemical Society (2006 ->)
• A member of Academia Europaea (2008 ->)
• A founder and member of the executive committee of the Division of Synthetic Chemistry of the Finnish Chemical Society, 1992 – 1994 (secretary), 1996*97 (vice chairman), 1998-1999 (chairman)
• The Finnish presentative at the Management Committee of the COST Chemistry Action D7 (Molecular Recognition Chemistry), 1992 – 1997
• The Finnish presentative and vice-chairman at the Management Committee of the COST Chemistry Action D11 (Supramolecular Chemistry), 1998 – 2003
• The Finnish presentative and chairman (2004 – 2005) at the Management Committee of the COST Chemistry Action D31 (Organising Non-Covalent Chemical Systems with Selected Functions), 2004 - 2009
• The Chairman of the Jyväskylä Professors Union 1998-2001
• The Chairman of the Jyväskylä Summer School 2002 (JSS12), www.jyu.fi/summerschool/
• Member of the review panel of Nessling Foundation (1998 – 2000)
• Member of the Ethics Council of the University of Jyväskylä (1999 – 2000)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of Finnish Chemical Indistry (2002 ->2007)
• Member of International Advisory Board, New J. Chem., (2000 –>), CrystEngComm. (2003 –> 2008)
• Member of the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering of the Finnish Academy, (2004 –2006)
• Chairman (2005 - 2006) and expert member (2007 ->) of the Steering Committee of the Academy of Finland nanoscience research programme, FinNano
• Member of the Science Council of the University of Jyväskylä (2006 ->)
• Member of TEKES FinNano Chemical Industries vision workgroup (2006)
• Referee over 50 publications/year (Science, PNAS, Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Eur. J., Chem. Comm., New J. Chem., CrystEngComm., J. Org. Chem., Eur. J. Org. Chem., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., J. Incl. Phenom., Chirality, Carbohydr. Res., Acta Chemica Scandinavica,., J. Alloys and Comp., J. Chem. Soc. Perkin 1., J. Chem. Soc. Perkin 2.)

Supervised 30 post graduate (Ph.D. or Ph.Lic.) and > 120 M.Sc. degrees.

External funding since 1997 > 4 500 000 €.

Collaborators (no. of joint publications in parentheses):

International: F. Vögtle (26), J.-M. Lehn (16), J.-P. Sauvage (4), D. Reinhoudt (1), J. Rebek (3), R. Ungano (1), V. Böhmer (12), A. Dalla Cort (10), L. Mandolini, (9), C. Schalley (11), M. Albrecht (9), A. Shivaniuk (13), W. Lindner (3), J. de Mendoza (3), E. Dalcanale (4), A. Davis (2), U. Maitra (2), P. Metrangolo (3), J. Nitschke (3), C.P. Rao, 26; J. Rodrigues (9), G. Haufe (6), S. K. Chawla (4), P. Bharadwaj (2), R.P. Sharma (2), I. Moldvai (2). National: A.M.P. Koskinen (13), J. Pursiainen (12), P. Vainiotalo (9), O. Ikkala (5), A. Ivaska (4), M. Kulomaa (2), H. Lemmetyinen (1), H. Tenhu (1), J. Korppi*Tommola (1), J. Helaja (1)

Currently 144th on the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) author list (1.1.2009) with 650 published X-ray structures.

Publications

1987 – present: > 325 publications in scientific journals, 3 book chapters, 18 patents/patent applications and >225 posters/lectures in scientific conferences.

Reseach topics:
Structural and Synthetic Supramolecular, Organic Chemistry and Nanochemistry, X*ray Crystallography, Crystal Engineering,