Anna Kormu
Curriculum Vitae
7.12.2023
I’m a keen and curious theoretical physicist who wants to learn more about the universe around us. I am a problem solver with sharp numerical skills. I also qualify as an art enthusiast having painted for 17 years, mainly with water and oil colours. I enjoy all things that combine art and computer science together.
EDUCATION
2021 – present, Doctor of Philosophy
University of Helsinki
Doctoral programme in particle physics and universe sciences.
Researching gravitational waves from the very early universe using numerical simulations.
Preliminary title: Gravitational waves from strong first order phase transitions.
2019 – 2020, Master of Science
University of Helsinki
Degree in Theoretical and Computational methods.
Thesis: Simulating bubble nucleation in the electroweak phase transition.
2015 – 2019, Bachelor of Science
University of Helsinki
Major in theoretical physics, minors in physics and computer science.
Thesis: Simulations of Cosmic Strings.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Feb. – May 2018 & Sep. 2018 – May 2019 & Sep. 2019 – July 2020 & Sep. – Dec. 2020
Research assistant, University of Helsinki & Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland
June – Aug. 2019
Summer trainee, Helsinki Institute of Physics, CERN, Switzerland
July – Sep. 2018
Summer trainee, DESY Summer School, Germany
May – Aug. 2017
Summer trainee, University of Helsinki, Finland & UK
TEACHING
University of Helsinki
Teaching assistant for the following courses
Oct. – Dec. 2023
Mathematics for Physicists II
Sep. – Nov. 2022
Quantum mechanics I
Jan. – May 2022
Mathematical Methods for Physicists 2
Jan. – March 2021
Introduction to Quantum Physics
Oct. – Dec. 2020
Introduction to Quantum Physics (taught in English)
March – May 2019
Introduction to Relativity
Jan. – March 2019
Introduction to Quantum Physics
AWARDS & GRANTS
Doctoral School in Natural Sciences Travel Grant
1000€ to attend Progress on Old and New Themes in Cosmology (PONT) 2023 in Avignon, France.
Antti & Jenny Wihuri Foundation travel grant
To facilitate travel to Rethinking Beyond the Standard model summer school in Corsica, France.
Doctoral Programme in Particle Physics and Universe Sciences PhD position
Salaried PhD position, three years of funding to complete my PhD studies.
Doctoral School in Natural Sciences Travel Grant
To facilitate travel to the PRACE autumn school 2021: Harnessing the EuroHPC Flagship Supercomputers (value 594€), in Vuokatti, Finland.
SIGHPC Travel Grant
I was awarded the SIGHPC travel grant (value 1200$), facilitating travel to the annual supercomputing conference SC17 in 2017.
LANGUAGES
Finnish Native
English Excellent C2
Swedish Good B2
German Satisfactory A2
IT SKILLS
Programming
Simulation code that I have written is in C, and most of my data analysis code in Python. I have used OpenMP & MPI to parallelize a Monte Carlo simulation code. Other programming languages that I have used include Java and Mathematica. I am also familiar with the Linux/Unix environment.
Other
VisIt, Blender and cloud resources used to produce scientific visualisations, Git, Inkscape, MS Office, LaTeX. GDB for debugging purposes.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCES, MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS
Oct. 2023 Contributed talk, First Nordic Cosmology Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden
June 2023 Contributed talk, The III Nordic Lattice Meeting 2023, Stavanger, Norway
June 2023 Contributed talk, Third EuCAPT Annual Symposium, CERN, Switzerland
May 2023 Contributed talk, Progress on Old and New Themes in Cosmology 2023, Avignon, France
March 2023 Contributed talk, Physic Days 2023, Tampere, Finland
June 2022 Poster, International HPC Summer School 2022, Athens, Greece
July 2019 Poster, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Lindau, Germany
SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIETAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Scientific outreach
March 2023 Public lecture, invited talk for the iTelescope Network (online)
March 2023 Outreach talk, Ressun Upper Secondary School
Oct 2022 Outreach talk, Kuninkaantie Upper Secondary School
Feb. 2022 Livestream, invited guest on Cup of Cosmology livestream
Sep. 2021 Outreach talk, Ressu Upper Secondary School
Organisational
2022 Retreat organisation, Organiser of CFT Group Retreat, Helsinki