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  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Finland Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Finland Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Overview

Markku Kulmala is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research spans multiple disciplines, focusing on environmental and earth sciences with a strong emphasis on atmospheric phenomena.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these disciplines, their subfields of study are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering
  • General Health Professions

Kulmala's work concentrates on key research topics such as:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Frequent publication venues for their academic output include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Science Atmospheres

Selected recent papers by Kulmala and colleagues are:

  • Formation and growth of fresh atmospheric aerosols: eight years of aerosol size distribution data from SMEAR II, Hyytiälä, Finland, 2024, Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Contrasting trends of PM2.5 and surface-ozone concentrations in China from 2013 to 2017, 2020, National Science Review
  • Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Rapid growth of new atmospheric particles by nitric acid and ammonia condensation, 2020, Nature
  • Differing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation at Two Arctic Sites, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers such as:

  • Tuukka Petäjä
  • Veli-Matti Kerminen
  • Chao Yan
  • Federico Bianchi
  • Lubna Dada

Among the honors received are:

  • Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (2016)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (2012)
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2009)
  • Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere

    J. L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;N. M. Donahue;A. S. H. Prevot

  • Formation and growth rates of ultrafine atmospheric particles: a review of observations

    M Kulmala;Hanna Tuula Katariina Vehkamäki;Tuukka Petäjä;M Dal Maso

  • Flood or drought: How do aerosols affect precipitation?

    Daniel Rosenfeld;Ulrike Lohmann;Graciela B. Raga;Colin D. O'Dowd

  • A large source of low-volatility secondary organic aerosol

    Mikael Ehn;Joel A. Thornton;Einhard Kleist;Mikko Sipila

  • Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation

    Jasper Kirkby;Joachim Curtius;João Almeida;João Almeida;Eimear Dunne

  • Direct observations of atmospheric aerosol nucleation.

    Markku Kulmala;Jenni Kontkanen;Heikki Junninen;Katrianne Lehtipalo

  • Molecular understanding of sulphuric acid-amine particle nucleation in the atmosphere

    Joao Almeida;Joao Almeida;Siegfried Schobesberger;Andreas Kürten;Ismael K. Ortega

  • Highly Oxygenated Organic Molecules (HOM) from Gas-Phase Autoxidation Involving Peroxy Radicals: A Key Contributor to Atmospheric Aerosol

    Federico Bianchi;Theo Kurtén;Matthieu Riva;Claudia Mohr

  • Atmospheric composition change – global and regional air quality

    P.S. Monks;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;S. Fuzzi;A. Stohl

  • Stable sulphate clusters as a source of new atmospheric particles

    Markku Kulmala;Liisa Pirjola;Jyrki M. Mäkelä

  • Marine aerosol formation from biogenic iodine emissions

    Colin D. O'Dowd;Colin D. O'Dowd;Jose L. Jimenez;Richard C. Bahreini;Richard C. Flagan

  • Formation and growth of fresh atmospheric aerosols: eight years of aerosol size distribution data from SMEAR II, Hyytiälä, Finland

    Miikka Dal Maso;Markku Kulmala;Ilona Riipinen;Robert Wagner

  • An amorphous solid state of biogenic secondary organic aerosol particles

    Annele Virtanen;Jorma Joutsensaari;Thomas Koop;Jonna Kannosto

  • The Role of Sulfuric Acid in Atmospheric Nucleation

    Mikko Sipilä;Mikko Sipilä;Torsten Berndt;Tuukka Petäjä;David Brus;David Brus

  • The role of low-volatility organic compounds in initial particle growth in the atmosphere

    Jasmin Tröstl;Wayne K. Chuang;Hamish Gordon;Martin Heinritzi

  • Enhanced haze pollution by black carbon in megacities in China

    A. J. Ding;X. Huang;W. Nie;J. N. Sun

  • Ion-induced nucleation of pure biogenic particles

    Jasper Kirkby;Jasper Kirkby;Jonathan Duplissy;Jonathan Duplissy;Kamalika Sengupta;Carla Frege

  • How Particles Nucleate and Grow

    Markku Kulmala

  • Station for Measuring Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations: SMEAR

    Pertti Hari;Eero Nikinmaa;Toivo Pohja;Erkki Siivola

  • Ultrafine particles in cities

    Prashant Kumar;Lidia Morawska;Wolfram Birmili;Pauli Paasonen

  • An improved parameterization for sulfuric acid-water nucleation rates for tropospheric and stratospheric conditions

    Hanna Tuula Katariina Vehkamäki;M Kulmala;I Napari;K E J Lehtinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Tuukka Petäjä
Tuukka Petäjä University of Helsinki
Ari Laaksonen
Ari Laaksonen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Pasi Aalto
Pasi Aalto University of Helsinki
Heikki Junninen
Heikki Junninen University of Tartu
Hanna Vehkamäki
Hanna Vehkamäki University of Helsinki
Lauri Laakso
Lauri Laakso Finnish Meteorological Institute
Veli-Matti Kerminen
Veli-Matti Kerminen University of Helsinki
Katrianne Lehtipalo
Katrianne Lehtipalo University of Helsinki
Mikael Ehn
Mikael Ehn University of Helsinki
Ilona Riipinen
Ilona Riipinen Stockholm University

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