Tapio Salmi

Tapio Salmi is born in Pargas Finland 1957. He received the degree of Doctor of Technology degree with distinction at Åbo Akademi University in Åbo-Turku Finland in 1986. He became associate professor in Industrial chemistry at Åbo Akademi University in 1989 and professor in Chemical Reaction Engineering at the same university in 1998. He had several research visits abroad, e.g. at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

Professor Tapio Salmi has around 600 scientific peer-review articles and several patents in the fields of chemical reaction engineering and catalysis. He is member of Finnish Academy of Sciences and Finnish Society of Science and Letters and honorary member of Czech Chemical Engineering Society. He is and has been member of several advisory boards of scientific organizations in Europe, e.g. TU Delft, TU Dresden, University of Valladolid and Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals at Czech Academy of Sciences. Academy Professor Salmi is a honorary member of Finnish Catalysis Society. He has supervised more than 60 PhD theses in the field of chemical reaction engineering and catalysis. Many of his students have obtained a professorship in Finland and abroad.

Tapio Salmi is the author and co-author of four textbooks in chemical reaction engineering, reactor technology and catalytic kinetics. He is an active visiting Erasmus lecturer in several European universities. He takes actively part in the societal discussion and has published several articles to popularize science and engineering.

Tapio Salmi has been nominated two times to the highest academic researcher position in Finland, Academy Professor (2009-2013 and 2019-2023). He has received the 1^st Class Finnish White Rose Knighthood from the President of the Republic and a national prize in chemistry in Finland, the Magnus Ehrnrooth Prize. He has received two times the Chancellor’s Prize of Åbo Akademi as the research leader of the year. In 2019 he obtained the highest recognition of chemical sciences in Finland, the A.I. Virtanen prize from Finnish Chemical Society.