CV

Short CV

EDUCATION

  • 19.09.2003      PhD, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 26.03.1999      MSc, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland

CURRENT POSITION(S)

  • 01.01.2017 –    Professor in computational space physics, University of Helsinki (UH), Finland
  • 01.01.2018 –    Director, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space
  • 01.06.2021 –    Chair of Board, Technology Academy Finland

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

  • 2013 – 2016     Research professor in space research, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland
  • 2011 – 2016     Head of Department, Earth Observation, FMI, Finland
  • 2008 – 2013     Academy Research Fellow, Academy of Finland (AoF) and FMI
  • 2005 – 2008     Academy of Finland Post-doctoral researcher, FMI
  • 2003 – 2005     Postdoctoral researcher, FMI
  • 2004                Visiting scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
  • 1999 – 2003     PhD student, Finnish Meteorological Institute

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (listing only the most important)

  • 2022  J.V. Snellman Prize for Outreach and Communications, University of Helsinki
  • 2016  Väisälä award for scientific achievements, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
  • 2016 – 2022 European Research Council Consolidator grant 682068-PRESTISSIMO, UH (2 M€)
  • 2008 – 2013 European Research Council Starting grant 200141-QuESpace, 2007 call, FMI (700 k€)
  • 2008 – 2013 Academy Research Fellow, Academy of Finland (AoF) and FMI (617 €)
  • 2005 – 2008 Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher, FMI (156 k€)

 OTHER RESEARCH FUNDING (in total more than 16 M€ as PI or Co-I)

  • 2021 – 2023 PI, HPC-approach to Ionospheric Situational Awareness, AoF (my part: 327 k€)
  • 2021 – 2023 Co-PI (PI: T. Roos) Distributed AI in Supercomputing and Physics, AoF (my part 308 k€)
  • 2021 – 2023 PI, ICT-Solutions to Understand Variability of Arctic Climate, AoF (my part: 319 k€)
  • 2021 – 2022 Co-I (PI: K. Kauristie), project for the Finnish National Emergency Supply Agency (my part: 36 k€)
  • 2020 – 2023 PI, Preparing for the most extreme space weather, AoF (my part: 600 k€)
  • 2018 – 2025 PI, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space, AoF (total: 10 M€)
  • 2019 – 2020 Co-I Daedalus Candidate mission study team, ESA (my part of total: 25 k€)
  • 2017 – 2021 PI, Towards Electron-scale Modelling of space Plasmas, AoF (440 k€)
  • 2017 – 2019 Marie Curie Action (as Advisor, Fellow: Lucile Turc), EU Horizon2020, 197 k€
  • 2014 – 2017 PI, Hybrid-Vlasov simulations of solar and magnetospheric plasmas, AoF (330 k€)
  • 2011 – 2014 Co-I (PI: H. Koskinen) Shocked plasmas in near-Earth space, AoF (350 k€)
  • 2012 – 2013 Co-I, Electrodynamics of MLTI region, ESA (my part of total: 14 k€)
  • 2011 – 2013 Co-I, European Cluster Assimilation Technology, FP7 (my part: 330 k€)
  • 2011 – 2013 Co-I, European Risk for Geomagnetically Induced Currents, FP7, (my part: 50 k€)

HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING GRANTS

  • 2012 – 2020 PI, Total of 6 Grand challenge grants, total: > 168 Million core hours (MCPUh), CSC, Finland
  • 2012 – 2022 PI, Total of 5 Tier-0 grants, total: > 190 MCPUh, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe and EuroHPC

LEADERSHIP IN RESEARCH AND OTHER AREAS (examples)

  • Director of Centre of Excellence
  • Chair of Board, Technology Academy Finland awarding 1 M€ Millennium Technology Prize
  • Chair of European Commission’s Space Advisory group strategizing space strategy for Europe
  • Leader of own research group (Vlasiator team), PI and founder of Vlasiator
  • Co-I, EE10 Candidate Daedalus, ESA, Mission Advisory Group, and Science Team member
  • Several international groups, e.g.: International Space Science Institute, COSPAR

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

  • 2006 – 21 Postdocs/ 14 PhD students / 9 Master students / 9 Bachelor students
    Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland, and FMI

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • 2017 – Introduction to plasma physics, and Space applications of plasma physics, 5 ECTS each Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (30+ in total, listing only international and the most recent)

  • 2020 European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Co-convener in ST2.5
  • 2019 European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Main convener in ST4.6

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES (listing only the most important)

  • 2022 – University of Helsinki Collegium, member
  • 2018 – Steering group, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki
  • 2018 – Steering group, Helsinki Institute of Physics (vice member)
  • 2017 – 2019 Chair of Work wellbeing group, Department of Physics, U Helsinki
  • 2017 – Media and Communications Steering group, Faculty of Science, U Helsinki
  • 2013 Member of the FMI steering group, vice member in 2012
  • 2012 – 2016 FMI Strategy group, member representing R&D Division

REVIEWING ACTIVITIES (listing only the most recent and most broad reviewing assignments)

  • 2022 Reviewing the supercomputing architecture in Switzerland
  • 2021 Reviewing the supercomputing architecture in Sweden
  • 2020 Programme committee member, Supercomputing 2020 (reviewing 20+ submissions)
  • 2019 Senior Science Committee duty for European Space Agency (reviewing 30+ proposals)
  • 2019 Panellist and evaluator, German Universities of Excellence (reviewing 2 universities)
  • 2018 ­Reviewer and panellist, German Science Foundation (DFG) (reviewing 30+ proposals)
  • 2017 – Academy of Finland, steering group for programme in artificial intelligence (review, steer)
  • 2016 – Associate Editor, Annales Geophysicae (continual review of submitted papers)

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST (listing only those which have national/international key importance)

  • 2021 Alfred Kordelin prize committee, member
  • 2020 – 2021 UNA Europa Future University Lab Think Tank, representing the University of Helsinki
  • 2019 – 2021 Science and Innovation Council, Technology Academy of Finland
  • 2019 – 2021 Mission Advisory Group, ESA Earth Observation, Earth Explorer 10 candidate Daedalus
  • 2018 – Chair, Finnish national COSPAR committee; Council memeber in COSPAR representing Finland
  • 2018 – Member representing Finnish scientific community, Finnish Space Committee
  • 2018 – 2021 INFRAG member, advising European Commission on supercomputing architectures
  • 2017 – 2018 Finnish space law committee, Ministry of Economic affairs and employment
  • 2016 – 2017 Member of Advisory Board, Vapa Media Oy (digital media company in Finland)
  • 2016 – 2017 Chair, Scientific Advisory Group, European Commission’s Space programme
  • 2014 – 2017 Scientific Advisory Group “Science with and for the society”, European Commission
  • 2014 – Scientific committee advising CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland
  • 2014 – 2015 Architectural group for Finnish scientific computing, Ministry of Education and Culture
  • 2013 – 2015 Scientific Advisory Group, European Commission’s Space programme
  • 2012 – 2016 Space security board member, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland
  • 2011 – 2016 Delegate of Finland, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
  • 2012 – 2014 Member of national level delegation, Nordea Bank Finland Oyj

SOCIETAL IMPACT AND POLICY ADVISING (listing the most recent and/or most broad tasks)

  • 2022 – Transport and Communication Committee, Finnish Parliament, expert
  • 2021 – Several commissions to advise the preparedness community at the highest level
  • 2019 Invited expert, United Nations COPUOS meeting, 13.6.2019, Vienna, Austria
  • 2019 Documentary movie for Finnish, and EU distribution, YLE and Arte, premiere 2.12.2019
  • 2018 – 2019 Highlighted in two books targeted to general public S&S 2018; Docendo 2019
  • 2018 Invited expert – EU-FI bilateral meeting about space weather, 14.2.2018
  • 2009 Invited expert, Presidential Forum IX, Changing Finland, Presidential Palace, Helsinki
  • Numerous appearances in TV (e.g., 29.1.2020 BBC World Live News)
  • Numerous radio direct broadcast and science news (e.g., 30.1.2020 CBC Canada)
  • Newspapers (e.g., 29.1.2020 front-page piece, largest newspaper in Finland Helsingin Sanomat)
  • Numerous outreach public outreach lectures, e.g. to 100+ business executives, Helsinki, 7.11.2019

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES