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Risto Nieminen (born May 14, 1948) is professor of physics (emeritus) and Academician of Science at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. His research area is condensed-matter and materials physics, especially theoretical and computational methods as applied to multiscale materials modelling.

Academic career
Risto Nieminen studied applied physics at Helsinki University of Technology and Cambridge University, and obtained his Dr.Sc. in Helsinki in 1975. He was a post-doctoral researcher at NORDITA, Copenhagen from 1975 to 1977. He was appointed associate professor at University of Jyväskylä, Finland in 1978. He was visiting professor at Cornell University in USA in 1979-1980 and 1986-1987. He moved to a professorship in Helsinki University of Technology (later Aalto University) in 1988, where became Distinguished Professor in 2010. He held the position of Academy Professor from 1997 to 2008, and was the director of COMP, the National Center of Excellence in Computational Nanoscience from 2000 to 2013. From 2013 to 2016 he was the Dean of the School of Science at Aalto University.

From 1989 to 1996, Risto Nieminen was the founding Scientific Director of CSC, the national scientific-computing center of Finland.

Risto Nieminen has supervised 70 doctoral students and a number of post-doctoral fellows.

Research activities
Risto Nieminen has developed and applied several computational methods, including first-principles electronic-structure calculations, molecular-dynamics simulations, and stochastical and continuum techniques He has used them in interpreting a variety of phenomena and properties of atomic-scale defects, surfaces and interfaces of solids,  as well as nanoscale structures and assemblies and their properties and processing. He has published more than 700 research articles with more than 40000 citations  (h-index 104). He has been a member of Psi-k, the European Network for electronic-structure calculations since 1994, and served as its chairman from 2012 to 2018.

Risto Nieminen is the founding editor of two research journals, Computational Materials Science (Elsevier) and Electronic Structure (Institute of Physics). He is Editorial Board member of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering (Springer, Germany).

Honors and awards

 * 1989 Magnus Ehrnrooth Physics Prize
 * 2004 Professor of the Year Prize
 * 2013 Wihuri Foundation Prize
 * 2014 Title of Academician of Science
 * 2016 Honorary President, Finnish Cultural Foundation
 * 2019  Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä
 * Since 1984 Member of Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters  (Honorary Member 2022)
 * Since 1995  Fellow of the American Physical Society
 * Since 1997  Member of Technology Academy of Finland
 * Since 2000  Fellow of Institute of Physics
 * Since 2009  Member of European Academy of Sciences
 * Since 2018  International Member of National Academy of Sciences of USA
 * Since 2021  Member of Academia Europaea