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About Ritva Serimaa
- Ritva Serimaa (née Ström) (September 20, 1957, Hamina – April 12, 2016, Hamina) was a Finnish physicist and professor, the first female professor of physics at the University of Helsinki.
- She gained her master's degree in 1982 and defended her doctoral thesis in 1990, becoming a docent of the University of Helsinki in 1992.
- Her doctoral thesis work and later research concerned X-ray physics and scattering.
- From 1991 to 1993 she worked at Stanford University making use of their synchrotron light source SSRL.
- One research focus was the structure of the preserved Swedish warship Vasa, whose structure was at risk due to damage from sulfur-containing compounds.
- From 2004 she was professor of physics at the University of Helsinki, the first woman to hold such a post.Serimaa supervised 16 doctoral theses and published at least 230 peer-reviewed articles.
- In 2010 she was made a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
- In 2011 she became the first female chair of the Finnish Physical Society.Serimaa married the physicist Olli Serimaa in 1982.
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