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Mikko Karttunen
PeerJ Editor
400 Points

Contributions by role

Editor 400

Contributions by subject area

Biophysics
Biochemistry
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Parasitology
Infectious Diseases
Computational Science
Cell Biology
Mathematical Biology

Mikko Karttunen

PeerJ Editor

Summary

Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Computational Materials and Biomaterials Research and Professor of Chemistry & Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. Leader of the Computational and Theoretical Biological Physics & Chemistry Group. Affiliate of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics at Waterloo.

Selected Awards: Ontario Early Reseachers Award, NSERC Discovery Accelerator, EU DEISA Extreme Computing, Distinguished Research Professor, Academy of Finland Fellowship

Biophysics Computational Biology Mathematical Biology

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Western University

Work details

Canada Research Chair in Computational Materials and Biomaterials Research & Professor of Chemistry

University of Western Ontario
February 2017
Department of Chemistry and Department of Applied Mathematics
Our research is geared towards the interface between condensed matter physics, biology and biomedical sciences. Typically, we employ large scale computer simulations combined with analytical studies. Most of our projects are done in collaboration with experimental groups. We concentrate on problems related to multiscale modeling of biological systems, lipid membranes, pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems, and computational methods.

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 4

Academic Editor on

May 15, 2019
Ellipse packing in two-dimensional cell tessellation: a theoretical explanation for Lewis’s law and Aboav-Weaire’s law
Kai Xu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6933 PubMed 31143548
February 27, 2019
Identification of a novel potassium channel (GiK) as a potential drug target in Giardia lamblia: Computational descriptions of binding sites
Lissethe Palomo-Ligas, Filiberto Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Verónica Yadira Ochoa-Maganda, Rafael Cortés-Zárate, Claudia Lisette Charles-Niño, Araceli Castillo-Romero
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6430 PubMed 30834181
August 14, 2018
Simulations of lipid bilayers using the CHARMM36 force field with the TIP3P-FB and TIP4P-FB water models
Fatima Sajadi, Christopher N. Rowley
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5472 PubMed 30128211
October 14, 2014
The structure of people’s hair
Fei-Chi Yang, Yuchen Zhang, Maikel C. Rheinstädter
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.619 PubMed 25332846