Ritva Serimaa (née Ström) (September 20, 1957, Hamina – April 12, 2016, Hamina) was a Finnish physicist and professor, the first female professor of physics at the University of Helsinki.[1] She gained her master's degree in 1982 and defended her doctoral thesis in 1990, becoming a docent of the University of Helsinki in 1992. Her doctoral thesis work and later research concerned X-ray physics and scattering. From 1991 to 1993 she worked at Stanford University making use of their synchrotron light source SSRL. One research focus was the structure of the preserved Swedish warship Vasa, whose structure was at risk due to damage from sulfur-containing compounds. From 2004 she was professor of physics at the University of Helsinki, the first woman to hold such a post.[1]
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| Nationality | Finnish |
| Alma mater | University of Helsinki |
Serimaa supervised 16 doctoral theses and published at least 230 peer-reviewed articles. In 2010 she was made a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. In 2011 she became the first female chair of the Finnish Physical Society.[1][2][3]
Serimaa married the physicist Olli Serimaa in 1982.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Huotari, Simo (May 21, 2016). "Fysiikan professori tutki myös Vasa-laivaa". Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
- ^ Suomalainen tiedeakatemia
- ^ Suomen Fyysikkoseura
Further reading
edit- Keijo Hämäläinen and Simo Huotari, Ritva Serimaa, 2016 Year Book of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (2017), pp90–91.
- Trewhella, Jill (February 1, 2017). "Ritva Serimaa (1957–2016)". Journal of Applied Crystallography. 50 (1): 331. doi:10.1107/s1600576716019609. ISSN 1600-5767.