You can find my full CV here.
Doctor of Science (Tech.) - Space Technology | 10/2018
Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland
Master of Science - Astronomy | 02/2014
University of Helsinki, Finland
Bachelor of Science - Astronomy | 02/2014
University of Helsinki, Finland
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy | 09/2024-
Texas Tech University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, TX, USA
Dodge Family Prize Fellow | 01/2023-08/2024
The University of Oklahoma, HLD Department of Physics and Astronomy, OK, USA
Internal Research Fellow | 12/2019-11/2022
European Space Agency / European Space Astronomy Centre, Spain
Postdoctoral Researcher | 04/2019 - 11/2019
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, CA, USA
Doctoral Candidate | 03/2014 - 10/2018
Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory &
Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Finland
Research Assistant | 10/2013 - 02/2014 & 05/2010 - 12/2012
Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Finland
Research Assistant | 06/2013 - 08/2013
Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA), Finland
Guide | 10/2012 - 03/2014
Helsinki Observatory, Finland
Working grants:
European Space Agency, 3-year Research Fellowship, 2019, 300 000€
Finnish Foundations’ Post Doc Pool, Postdoctoral research at UCSB, USA, 2019, 54 000€
Finnish Cultural Foundation, Postdoctoral research, 2019, 15 000€
Finnish Cultural Foundation, PhD studies, 03-08/2018, 12 000€
Aalto University ELEC Doctoral School, PhD studies, 09/2014 - 02/2018, 150 000€
Research visits and conferences:
European Southern Observatory, Research visit to ESO Santiago, Chile, 11/2023
University of Padova, Research visit to the University of Padova, Italy, 11-12/2021
FINCA, Research visits to Tartu Observatory, Estonia, 11/2018 and 01-02/2019
RadioNet, Revisiting NLS1 galaxies and their place in the Universe -conference, Italy, 04/2018
Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation, AGN - what’s in a name? -conference, Germany, 06/2016
Väisälä Foundation, Research visit to Brera Astronomical Observatory, Italy, 04-05/2016
FINCA, 28th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Switzerland, 12/2015
Workshop organisation:
ESA, Organising the Panchromatic view of the lifecycle of AGN -workshop, Spain, 09/2020
Observed on:
Apache Point Observatory 3.5 telescope, KOSMOS
IRAM 30m radio telescope, EMIR and NIKA2
Nordic Optical Telescope, NOTCam
Metsähovi Radio Observatory 14m radio telescope
Accepted observing proposals:
As principal investigator:
NASA (NICER 84ks)
European Southern Observatory (FORS2 197h)
Apache Point Observatory 3.5m (KOSMOS 10h)
Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (OSIRIS, 14.55h)
Nordic Optical Telescope (NOTCam 9 nights, ALFOSC 4 Fast-tracks)
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique 30m (NIKA2, 16.8h)
Effelsberg 100-m (96h)
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (JVLA 21.84h, VLBA 10h)
European VLBI Network (e-VLBI 24h)
As co-investigator:
XMM-Newton (201ks)
Swift UVOT/XRT (ToO)
Nordic Optical Telescope (ALFOSC five Fast-tracks)
European Southern Observatory (MUSE 62h, FORS2 1.8h,
ERIS SV 1.3h, EFOSC2 22 nights, XSHOOTER 20h)
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (Dolores ToO + DDT)
Large Binocular Telescope (2 nights)
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (30-m EMIR 21h, NOEMA)
Sardinia Radio Telescope (97.5h)
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (JVLA 98.23h + DDT, VLBA 5h)
Australia Telescope Compact Array (60h)
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (13h)
PhD theses:
Luca Crepaldi (University of Padova, Italy) | 2022 -
Shashikant Gupta (Aalto University, Finland)| 2022 -
Amelia Vietri (University of Padova, Italy)| 2021 - 2024
Irene Varglund (Aalto University, Finland)| 2020 - 2024
Master's theses:
Guillermo García López (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain) | 2022
Luca Crepaldi (University of Padova, Italy) | 2022
Amelia Vietri (University of Padova, Italy) | 2021
Undergraduate research projects:
Sydney Matak (Texas Tech University, TX, USA) 2025 -
Rachel Clapshaw (Texas Tech University, TX, USA) 2024 -
Daniel Bergman (Texas Tech University, TX, USA) 2024 -
Sejal Chetry (Texas Tech University, TX, USA) | 2024 -
Rana Osman (University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA) | 2024 -
Alice Heranval (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA) | 2023 - 2025
Rohan Dahale (IISER Kolkata, India) | 2019
Courses taught:
TTU ASTR 1401 Stellar Astronomy | Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Mentoring:
Supernova Foundation | 2021 -
University of Helsinki Group Mentoring Programme | 2023 -
Teaching assistant:
Radio Astronomy, Astronomical View of the World, Introduction to Space
Editorial roles:
Member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports of Nature Research, 2021 -
Associate Editor of Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science, 2020 -
Reviewer:
Observing proposals: ESO, GMRT, Swift, NRAO, NOIRLab, e-MERLIN
Grant applications: NSF
Manuscripts: A&A, ApJ, MNRAS, Galaxies, OJAp, Universe
Institute committee memberships:
Community and Inclusion Committee of the HLD Department of
Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, 09/2023 - 08/2024
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee in ESA (2021-2022)
Graduation committee at the University of Padova, Italy (07/2021, 04/2022)
Professional organisations:
Member, secretary, and treasurer of the IAU Finnish National Committee for Astronomy (2015-2018)
Board member (2013-2018), secretary (2014-2015), and treasurer (2015-2017) of The Finnish
Astronomical Society
Workshop/conference organisation:
Chairperson of the Scientific Organising Committee and the Local Organising Committee for the
“Panchromatic view of the life-cycle of AGN” -workshop in ESA/ESAC (2022)
Member of the Local Organising Committee for the Finnish Astronomers’ Days (2014, 2016
American Astronomical Society
American Physical Society and APS Astrophysics Division
European Astronomical Society
The Finnish Astronomical Society