Tommi Tenkanen
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
Adjunct professor (docent) of theoretical physics, University of Helsinki
PhD in theoretical physics (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Scientific interests: Cosmology, physics of the early universe, extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics
My publications from
INSPIRE
My Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Ansioluetteloni suomeksi (CV in Finnish): Ansioluettelo (pdf)
Contacts
Office: Room 453, Bloomberg Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Office phone: +1 410 516 8416
Mobile phone: +1 443 854 1265 / +358 400 221 427
Email: ttenkan1@jhu.edu
Teaching and supervision
At the moment, I supervise undergraduate research projects and co-supervise PhD students.
Previously, I have been a teacher on the Queen Mary U. of London courses
Physical Cosmology (spring 2018)
Mathematical Techniques 2 (spring 2017)
and on the U. Helsinki courses
General Relativity (spring 2016)
Analytical Mechanics (fall 2015)
Cosmology I-II (fall 2014)
Mathematical Methods I-II (falls 2011-2013)
Radiation fields and Photons (spring 2013)
Thermophysics (falls 2011 and 2012)
Waves and fields (spring 2012)
Electrodynamics (spring 2011)
Miscellanea
My blog Akatemian jalkaväki (in Finnish)
My PhD Thesis Cosmological Constraints on Higgs Portal Dark Matter
My Master's Thesis Epägaussisuudet kurvatonimallissa ("Non-gaussianities in the curvaton model")
Longer articles, news, interviews, and videos of me and my research can be found in e.g. Youtube here and here, TSB Digest (in English), yle.fi, Suomen fyysikkoseuran blogi, Tähdet ja avaruus, Yle Areena, Yle Tiede, Yle Radio Suomi, Tekniikka ja talous (in Finnish) and Hufvudstadsbladet (in Swedish).
Latest update February 15, 2019