Research at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
We aim to establish a high-quality and attractive research environment for mechanical and materials engineering.
Materials engineering research focuses on solar energy materials and systems, next generation stationary energy storage technologies and light-emitting device technologies.
The focus of mechanical engineering research is on smart systems, laser based manufacturing processes and digital and system design.
Industrial Engineering and Management research focuses on sustainable development and sustainability over business lifecycles.
Research at our department
Industrial Engineering and Management
Automation Engineering
Newest publications
Economic viability of large-scale solar PV implementation in the Nordic power market: Case Finland (2026)
Renewable Energy Focus
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
A review on deep learning for vision-based hand detection, hand segmentation and hand gesture recognition in human-robot interaction (2026)
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
Sustainable Nanocellulose UV Filters for Photovoltaic Applications: Comparison of Red Onion (Allium cepa) Extract, Iron Ions, and Colloidal Lignin (2025)
ACS Applied Optical Materials
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
A critical review on lignin structure, chemistry, and modification towards utilisation in additive manufacturing of lignin-based composites (2025)
Industrial Crops and Products
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Mass Spectrometric Insight into the Sulfonated Polyaniline Polymerization Assisted by Aniline, Aniline Dimers and Perchloric Acid (2025)
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
3D Scene Graphs in Robotics: A Unified Representation Bridging Geometry, Semantics, and Action (2025)
(Other publication)Testing Human-Hand Segmentation on In-Distribution and Out-of-Distribution Data in Human-Robot Interactions Using a Deep Ensemble Model (2025)
arXiv.org
(Other publication)
Investigating the effects of weather condition uncertainties on the required propulsion power of a cruise ship (2025)
Ships and offshore structures
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Fate of phosphorus and potassium in gasification of wheat bran and sunflower seed shells (2025)
Fuel
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Unveiling novel capacity (electro)recovery for Chloranilate-based alkaline redox flow batteries (2025)
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)