Areas of Expertise

• Computer-aided drug design
• Molecular modeling
• Biomolecular simulations
• Computational chemistry/biology and computational pharmaceutics
• Structural bioinformatics
• Immunoinformatics

Research Projects

• Discovery and design of novel antivirulence agents / antimicrobial compounds / anticancer drugs
• Computational analysis of pharmaceutical materials (e.g., nanoparticles, polymers)

Special Methodologies & Techniques

• Comparative protein modeling
• Molecular docking
• Molecular dynamics simulations
• Molecular interaction analysis
• Materials science modeling

Major Funding & International Networks

• Tor, Joe & Pentti Memorial Fund
• Svenska Kulturfonden
• Research Council of Finland
• EU-OPENSCREEN

Selected Publications

• Microfluidics-Enabled Core/Shell Nanostructure Assembly: Understanding Encapsulation Processes via Particle Characterization and Molecular Dynamics. Adv Colloid Interface Sci. 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2025.103400
• Insights Into Molecular Interactions and Biological Effect of Natural Stilbenoids at the TRPA1 ion channel. ChemMedChem. 2024. DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.202400501
• Development of Aptamer-DNAzyme based metal-nucleic acid frameworks for gastric cancer therapy. Nat Commun. 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48149-9.
• Isolation and functional analysis of phage-displayed antibody fragments targeting the staphylococcal superantigen-like proteins. MicrobiologyOpen. 2023. DOI: doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1371
• The discovery of Zika virus NS2B-NS3 inhibitors with antiviral activity via an integrated virtual screening approach. Eur J Pharm Sci. 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejps.2022.106220

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