Ville Leminen
Biography
D.Sc. Ville Leminen was selected in 2021 as the Associate Professor (Tenure Track) of Packaging Technology. He has been the head of the laboratory since 2019. Associate Professor Leminen has over 15 years’ experience in converting fiber- and bio-based materials, heat sealing, packaging, coating, and barrier solutions. He has been the PI and project manager for several significantly sized projects. Currently, he is the PI in several projects such as the Research Council of Finland Mon-Cell-Pack project, H2020 upPE-T project, the Business Finland COCOBIN project, and the ERDF Films For Future (F3) project. The goal is to develop and improve the convertibility and processing of sustainable packaging materials and develop novel testing devices for different applications.
The social context of the work comes naturally – packages are used daily by all of us; the scope is to make possible the use of fibre-based solutions in reliable, mass-scale production. The work is done in cooperation with and has an effect on packaging material producers, packaging machinery producers, food packaging industry and packaging industry in general.