Rate My Professor Timo Nieminen

Nieminen has produced 242 scholarly works from 1996 to 2025, including 113 journal articles, 114 conference papers, 11 book chapters, and other outputs. Notable publications include 'Colloquium: Momentum of an electromagnetic wave in dielectric media' (Reviews of Modern Physics, 2007), 'Physics of optical tweezers' (2007), 'Optical forces, trapping and manipulation' (2015), 'Controlled transfer of transverse orbital angular momentum to optically trapped birefringent microparticles' (Nature Photonics, 2022), and 'Optical tweezers in mechanobiology' (2023). He has led or contributed to multiple Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, such as 'Probe-free biophysical force and torque measurements with optical tweezers' (2018-2022), 'Dynamics of constrained Brownian motion of neuro-secretory vesicles' (2011-2013), 'Advanced optical tweezers technologies for biophysical measurements' (2010-2014), and 'Cell fluid interaction: inside and outside cells' (2023-2026). Nieminen has supervised 12 PhD completions between 2008 and 2023 and currently advises doctoral students in neuroscience and biohydrodynamics of bacterial-based active matter. His developments in computational toolboxes for optical tweezers and modelling techniques have significantly influenced research in biophysics, photonics, and optical manipulation.