Experience

CSC - IT Center for Science

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

• Integration Specialist

  • Aug 2021 - Present



Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI)

• Finland
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Scientist

  • Aug 2016 - Dec 2020

  Working in the Space Geodesy research group in the Department of Geodesy and Geodynamics. Research topics included radiation pressure effects on satellite orbits; satellite laser ranging; space debris. Mostly through computational tools, written in Python and/or Julia.



University of Helsinki

• Finland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Doctoral student

  • Jan 2012 - Jul 2016

  Doing a PhD on simulations of light scattering from particulate surfaces, with applications to the photometry of solar system objects. Teaching assistant on various courses including Electromagnetic Scattering, Scientific Computing and Inversion Methods in Astronomy. Lectured the introductory astronomy course 'Universe Now' in autumn 2014.

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

  Fortran and Python programming, photometric data reduction, scientific writing. Part-time contract doing my Master's thesis on lunar photometry.



Self-employed

• Python consultant

  • 2013 - 2015

  Helsinki A small side job giving lectures on Python programming and other computational tools for scientists. I have given some lectures on the basics of Python programming to various interested parties now and then, once or twice per year. Sometimes also teaching other computational tools.



University of Helsinki

• Finland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2009 - Jul 2010

  Assistant in a research group on computational aerosol physics. Mostly writing Matlab and Python scripts for data reduction.



Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI)

• Finland
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research assistant

  • May 2008 - Dec 2008

  Mostly field work, such as GPS and levelling measurement. Assisting in the calibration of instruments. Writing Python scripts for data processing. Helping repair an old satellite laser ranging system.



Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI)

• Finland
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research assistant

  • May 2007 - Nov 2007

  Assisting in the calibration of instruments. Field work, such as GPS and levelling measurements. Some construction work (concrete pillars for instruments). In October-November part-time assistant in the Väisälä interferometry campaign at the Nummela baseline, doing mostly meteorological measurements.