Atlanta,
Georgia, -- February 5, 2002 Dr. Jere
Koskinen has joined the Institute of Paper
Science and Technology (IPST) as an Assistant
Professor of Chemistry in the Physical and
Wet End Chemistry Unit. Dr. Koskinen previously
worked with Dr. Sujit Banerjee as an assistant
scientist in the areas of volatile organic
compounds and hazardous air pollutants control
in the wood products industry and stickies
management in papermaking and recycling.
Dr Gary Baum, Vice President of Institute
Operations, said, "Jere is a highly
capable and motivated researcher with experience
in the pulp and paper and wood products industries.
We are very pleased to welcome him to our
faculty."
Dr. Koskinen was also recently awarded an innovation
grant from the IPST Office of the President for his research
project entitled, "Novel Thin-Film Fluorocarbon
Coatings for Paper and Paperboard for Medical, Electronics,
Packaging, and Printing Applications and Industrial-Scale
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The other principal investigators
on the project include Dr. Dennis Hess from Georgia
Tech and Dr. Stefan Zauscher from Duke University.
Dr. James Ferris, President of IPST, says, "Dr. Koskinen
brings to the Institute a broad knowledge of the industry
as well as an international perspective. The innovation grant
program that Jere is participating in offers opportunities
for new products and new product platforms that lie at the
interface between papermaking technologies and other cutting-edge
technologies. His research offers many new opportunities
in the areas of enhanced packaging and printing as well as
the possibility for test strips for a myriad of biological
uses".
Dr. Koskinen earned a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the
University of Helsinki. He has 12 refereed publications and
has published numerous other articles, including presentations
and posters for national and international conferences. He
has given a number of invited talks and seminars at academic
institutions and has served on the editorial board of the
Asian Journal of Spectroscopy. In addition, Dr. Koskinen
is a member of several professional associations, including
the Finnish Paper Engineers' Association, American Chemical
Society, and the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
He is also an authorized translator from English to Finnish
in the science and technology area.
Before joining the Institute as an assistant scientist, he
worked as a senior research scientist at Empire State Paper
Research Institute (SUNY-ESF) in Syracuse, New York, and
as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Chemistry
at Purdue University.
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