Brief CV

• Born on July 7, 1967, in Kemijärvi, a small town in northern Finland.
• Matriculation examination, Kemijärven lukio, Kemijärvi, Finland, on May 31, 1986.
  
  
• Exchange studentship at Chalmers University of Technology, School of Physics and Engineering Physics, Gothenburg, Sweden, in the academic year 1990-1991.
• M.Sc. in Microelectronics and Material Physics, University of Oulu, Department of Electrical Engineering, Oulu, Finland, on November 12, 1992. M.Sc. thesis Two-point magnetoconductance and intermode scattering in ballistic constrictions.
• Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Oulu, Department of Physical Sciences, NMR Research Group, Oulu, Finland, on September 10, 1997. Ph.D. thesis Computational studies on the NMR parameters of molecular probes in liquids and solids.
• Docent in Physics at the University of Oulu, on December 1, 1999.
  
• Docent in Physical Chemistry at the University of Helsinki, on April 23, 2003.
  
  
• Postdoctoral work at Linköping University, Sweden, Department of Physics and Measurement Technology, Computational Physics Group, during fall 1997.
  
• Postdoctoral work at the University of Oulu, Finland, Department of Physical Sciences, NMR Research Group, during 1998.
• Postdoctoral work (European Commission Marie Curie Fellowship) at Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany, November 1998-December 1999.
• Senior assistant in physics at Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, January 1, 2000 - July 31, 2003.
• Researcher at University of Helsinki, Department of Chemistry, Helsinki, Finland. Vilho, Yrjö, and Kalle Väisälä Fellowship (January-July 2000); Academy of Finland: postdoctoral fellowship (tutkijatohtori) (August 2000 - July 2002); Academy Research Fellow (August 2002 - September 2007).
• University Lecturer (permanent) in physical chemistry, University of Helsinki, Department of Chemistry, August 1, 2003-January 31, 2011. On leave of absence August 1, 2009 - January 31, 2011.
• Professor in physics, University of Oulu, Department of Physics, August 1, 2009 - January 31, 2011.
• Professor in physics, in particular computational molecular and materials physics, University of Oulu, Department of Physics, from February 1, 2011 onwards.
  
  
• My linguistic skills in a decreasing order of competence: suomi, English, svenska, Deutsch
  
  
• Family: son, daughter and cat.