Experience

CSC - IT Center for Science

• Finland
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Director

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

• Deputy Head of ELIXIR Finland

  • Aug 2017 - Present

  Finland

• Biomedical Service Development Manager

  • Nov 2015 - Dec 2022

  Finland Manage service development projects related to ELIXIR Finland hosted at the CSC. Coordinate input and relations from these projects with CSC’s technological platform services, stakeholders in biomedical research and international collaborators.



ELIXIR

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Human Data Coordinator

  • Mar 2015 - Oct 2015

  Cambridge, United Kingdom Coordinate the ELIXIR partners and stakeholders to create an implementation plan for the ELIXIR vision for human data management. For example, negotiate technical and data content solutions to light up GA4GH Beacons within the national ELIXIR nodes, or, interact with the industry partners to provide ELIXIR services for secure data management.

• Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) Task Force Co-leader

  • Apr 2014 - Mar 2015

  Cambridge, United Kingdom Lead a group of international experts on AAI substance to create ELIXIR AAI architecture design based on use cases. Project management of pilot projects in preparation of the AAI service implementation.



European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Variation Archive Project Leader

  • Aug 2009 - Oct 2015

  Cambridge, United Kingdom Manager for the two of the EMBL-EBI genomic variation archive services: EGA and DGVa. Lead development of technical platforms, coordinate technical requirements (authentication and authorization, storage, network, computing, security and website). Develop relationships with key stakeholders. Prepare policy, guideline and project documents, contribute to grant applications and reports. Represent EMBL-EBI at scientific conferences and FP7 framework meetings.

• European Genome-phenome Archive Developer

  • Jul 2007 - Nov 2009

  Cambridge, United Kingdom The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) provides a permanent storage and controlled access based dissemination services for Biomedical research projects where subjects have consented their data for research but not for open-access distribution. Primary responsibilities included contributions to the EGA technical platform design and implementation using PERL and relational databases, managing the data submissions, help-desk and interactions with key stakeholders.



University of Cambridge

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher in Biophysics

  • 2003 - 2007

  Cambridge, United Kingdom In my research career I focused on collating genetic variants to databases and understanding how these changes at the DNA cause a number of different diseases in human. My research showed that disease-­causing mutations typically decrease the overall stability of the affected proteins or alter their folding path inside the cells when these mutations do not affect functional sites. As a consequence there is not enough of active protein to perform the function that also cannot be performed by any… Show more In my research career I focused on collating genetic variants to databases and understanding how these changes at the DNA cause a number of different diseases in human. My research showed that disease-­causing mutations typically decrease the overall stability of the affected proteins or alter their folding path inside the cells when these mutations do not affect functional sites. As a consequence there is not enough of active protein to perform the function that also cannot be performed by any other protein expressed by the cell. My research combined a number of different biophysical, biochemical, cellular biology and informatics techniques. Show less



University of Helsinki

• Finland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Student

  • 2000 - 2004

  Working with rare inherited diseases affecting the immune system by maintaining and developing locus-specific databases as well as using biochemical tools to understand the effect of these mutations on protein function and stability.