About
Summary
I am available as employee or contractor for challenging managerial and scientific tasks. I have an exceptional skill set because of wide education in natural and social sciences and deep experience in research and project management. Particularly I have developed my capacities for the leadership of innovation and research work.
I am convinced to be able to boost the innovation capacity of any public or private organization by developing its leadership model. This includes giving the employees necessary autonomy and supporting their talents and social needs, letting the members to identify with the team and to internalize the values of the organization. Particularly I would take care of creating and maintaining an organizational culture and team-level atmosphere supporting continuous development, ambitious goals, fairness and psychological safety.
I see all the universe as my home. I am familiar with international and multicultural environments and can work with very different people. I master virtual and distant collaboration. I am prepared to travel within all the civilized world.
My leadership ethics bases on Kantian principles to treat everybody as an end itself and not only as a means. Also I want to enlighten, develop, encourage and educate all the members of my group to use their own wisdom and intelligence so that they grow up to be my co-leaders. My current philosophical interests focus on fairness in society and epistemology of science. In the latter I am interested in questions like: What do we really know about nature and humanity? What is theory? What is a good theory? How to test the theory?
What I do not know I can learn very fast. I am a professional learner. I believe that one can always learn new tasks and learn to do current tasks better, and one can improve all the skills by practising and by creating knowledge by studying the underlying principles. I am eager to study unexplored domains.
Positions
visiting scientist Oct 2009 - Dec 2009
Department of Physics, Technische Universität München
I planned future projects for building research infrastructures hosting the largest volume experiments ever built.
I simulated the experiments and discovered the possibility to apply liquid scintillator technology for a far detector of a neutrino beam sent from a distant accelerator like CERN.
During my stay I learned more about German culture and practised my German language skills that I had gained in the school. I was quite amazed how effectively organized the German institutions are.
project manager Sep 1999 - Jan 2008
Centre for Underground Physics in Pyhäsalmi, University of Oulu
I managed EU-funded projects to develop research infrastructures deep underground in the Pyhäsalmi mine. I applied and obtained funding with a typical budget 300 000 € per annum. I lead a research team consisting of 5-10 persons, including senior scientist from other nationalities and research students to be trained.
We performed three pilot experiments in the mine with international collaboration. We started building a mid-size experiment EMMA to measure cosmic rays. I made also theoretical studies and numerical simulations for these and other experiments. I made visual models to demonstrate the phenomena and processes, using Java GUI.
I participated in several international EU framework projects. I was also involved in the planning of many others, some successful and some not. I established and maintained contacts with the most important scientists in the field and the heads of other underground laboratories in the world.
We were working in an operative underground mine. Therefore I had to take all operational and safety concerns into account. Particularly I learned that an unreported incident is a lost possibility to learn. Our safety record was impeccable.
I gave lectures in particle physics and supervised more than ten Master's thesis.
I organized several meetings. I was the chairman for one and member of the committee for another major international scientific conference.
I attended several courses and lectures in leadership and administration.
senior researcher, assistent etc Sep 1995 - Aug 1999
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki
I investigated the theory of elementary particles. I continued to make models for neutrinos in different parts of the universe.
I established one of the most used resource in the web among the neutrino scientists, the "Ultimate Neutrino Page". I developed some Java applets, both server and client side, to visualize neutrino phenomena for scientist and students.
I gave lectures and exercises in physics and mathematics. I also supervised laboratory practicals.
I attended a course to develop university pedagogical skills.
With my local colleagues we organized two major international conferences.
Postdoc Sep 1993 - Aug 1995
I continued research in international environments.
I studied neutrinos in the universe as well as models for neutrino masses. I wrote simulation codes in FORTRAN.
During my stay I learned to speak fluent Italian. I also learned the Italian culture.
Postdoc Oct 1991 - Sep 1993
Department of theoretical physics, University of Valencia
I started my postdoctoral career in research, working in an international environment. I made particle physics models for generating very small masses for neutrinos and studied the phenomena caused by the tiny masses. These included the Sun, supernovae and the early universe. I also studied neutrinos as the missing dark matter.
I gave some lectures in cosmology.
During my stay in Spain I learned to speak fluent Spanish and write it better than most men in the street.
Education
University of Lapland 2011 - 2014
Field of study: management
Degree: Master of Social Sciences
Master degree in the programme of management and marketing.
Master's thesis on the leadership of creative research work
Minors include psychology, business and public laws, philosophy, pedagogy
University of Helsinki 1988 - 1991
Field of study: physical sciences
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
PhD thesis on Neutrinos in the Sun and Supernovae
Skills
leadership, management, project, innovation, theory, experiment, analysis, simulation, teaching,
Professional interests
management, leadership, creativity, physics, laboratories, facilities, hardware, analysis, software, economics, education
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