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Overview

Pekka Virtanen is affiliated with Tampere University in Finland, focusing on engineering and materials science. Their work primarily spans several specialized fields, including biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, organic chemistry, mechanical engineering, and catalysis.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas, with a strong emphasis on catalytic processes and biomass conversion. Key scientific themes include:

  • Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
  • Lignin and Wood Chemistry
  • Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Catalysts for Methane Reforming

They have coauthored work with several frequent collaborators, including Päivi Mäki-Arvela, Ramakrishna Jogi, Ajaikumar Samikannu, Andrey Shchukarev, and Kari Eränen. Their publications have appeared in various scientific venues, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. These venues include:

  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • International Journal of Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Applied Catalysis A General

Selected recent publications by Pekka Virtanen showcase research on catalyst development and applications in biomass conversion and catalytic reactions:

  • "Highly dispersed NbOPO4/SBA-15 as a versatile acid catalyst upon production of renewable jet-fuel from bio-based furanics via hydroxyalkylation-alkylation (HAA) and hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) reactions," 2020, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • "Improving the separation of guaiacol from n-hexane by adding choline chloride to glycol extracting agents," 2022, Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • "Kinetic study of the carbonation of epoxidized fatty acid methyl ester catalyzed over heterogeneous catalyst HBimCl-NbCl5/HCMC," 2021, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics
  • "Competing commercial catalysts: Unprecedented catalyst activity and stability of Mizoroki-Heck reaction in a continuous packed bed reactor," 2022, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Understanding the formation of phenolic monomers during fractionation of birch wood under supercritical ethanol over iron based catalysts," 2020, Journal of the Energy Institute

Best Publications

  • Temporary employment and health: a review

    Marianna Virtanen;Mika Kivimäki;Matti Joensuu;Pekka Virtanen

  • Organisational downsizing, sickness absence, and mortality: 10-town prospective cohort study

    Jussi Vahtera;Mika Kivimäki;Jaana Pentti;Anne Linna

  • Employment security and health

    P Virtanen;J Vahtera;M Kivimäki;J Pentti

  • How does unemployment affect self-assessed health? A systematic review focusing on subgroup effects

    Fredrik Norström;Pekka Virtanen;Pekka Virtanen;Anne Hammarström;Per E Gustafsson

  • Sickness absence as a risk factor for job termination, unemployment, and disability pension among temporary and permanent employees

    M Virtanen;M Kivimäki;J Vahtera;M Elovainio

  • Health inequalities in the workforce: the labour market core–periphery structure

    P Virtanen;V Liukkonen;J Vahtera;M Kivimäki

  • Exposure to temporary employment and job insecurity: a longitudinal study of the health effects.

    Pekka Virtanen;Urban Janlert;Anne Hammarström

  • Social capital in working life and the health of employees.

    Virpi Liukkonen;Pekka Virtanen;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Jaana Pentti

  • Health status and health behaviour as predictors of the occurrence of unemployment and prolonged unemployment

    Pekka Virtanen;Urban Janlert;Anne Hammarström

  • Workplace as an origin of health inequalities.

    Jussi Vahtera;Pekka Virtanen;Mika Kivimaki;Jaana Pentti

  • Employment trajectory as determinant of change in health-related lifestyle: the prospective HeSSup study.

    Pekka Virtanen;Jussi Vahtera;Ulla Broms;Lauri Sillanmäki

  • Labor Market Trajectories and Health: A Four-Year Follow-up Study of Initially Fixed-Term Employees

    Pekka Virtanen;Jussi Vahtera;Mika Kivimäki;Virpi Liukkonen

  • Is temporary employment related to health status? : Analysis of the Northern Swedish Cohort.

    Anna-Karin Waenerlund;Pekka Virtanen;Anne Hammarström

  • Community‐based natural resource management in Mozambique: a critical review of the concept's applicability at local level

    Pekka Virtanen

  • Association of Contractual and Subjective Job Insecurity With Sickness Presenteeism Among Public Sector Employees

    Tarja Heponiemi;Marko Elovainio;Jaana Pentti;Marianna Virtanen

  • The Work Environment in Fixed-Term Jobs: Are Poor Psychosocial Conditions Inevitable?

    Antti Saloniemi;Pekka Virtanen;Jussi Vahtera

  • Relationship between perceived work ability and productivity loss

    Kimmo Vänni;Pekka Virtanen;Tiina Luukkaala;Clas-Håkan Nygård

  • Stressful life events and the onset of asthma

    Raija Lietzén;Pekka Virtanen;Mika Kivimäki;Lauri Sillanmäki

  • It's no surprise! Men are not hit more than women by the health consequences of unemployment in the Northern Swedish Cohort.

    Anne Hammarström;Per E. Gustafsson;Mattias Strandh;Pekka Virtanen

  • Disparity in occupational training and career planning between contingent and permanent employees

    Marianna Virtanen;Mika Kivimäki;Pekka Virtanen;Marko Elovainio

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Hammarström
Anne Hammarström Karolinska Institute
Urban Janlert
Urban Janlert Umeå University
Marko Elovainio
Marko Elovainio University of Helsinki
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Sakari Suominen
Sakari Suominen University of Turku
Kirsi Ahola
Kirsi Ahola Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Olli Kiviruusu
Olli Kiviruusu Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Tarja Heponiemi
Tarja Heponiemi Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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