Arttu Luukanen holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics. Arttu did his post-doctoral research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. In 2005, he was appointed as the director of MilliLab – the Millimetre-wave Laboratory of Finland – an ESA External Laboratory, and in 2009 as a Research Professor at VTT. In 2013 he co- founded Asqella Ltd to commercialize passive multi-band submillimetre-camera technology, a long time subject of his research. In 2022, he joined Solar Foods as their Senior Vice President of Space & Defence. He is an elected Fellow of the Finnish Academy of Technology.
Scientist: Arttu Lukkanen
Food made from air – sustainable protein production imitates nature
Feeding an expanding global population has a high cost, particularly for the planet. However, new food production methods aim to relieve this pressure by fixating atmospheric CO2 into climate-friendly food and feed products.
Producing milk with CO2 and electricity
Milk without cows: the European Hydrocow project, funded by the European Innovation Council, aims to produce milk with carbon dioxide (CO2) and electricity, removing the cow from the process. They are working on engineering a microbe that converts CO2 and hydrogen, produced from water using electricity, into beta-lactoglobulin, a major constituent of milk. We interviewed ...