Education
Dec 1992 Doctor of Technology, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) Major subject in systems and operations research, minor in mathematics
Mar 1990 Licentiate of Technology, TKK Major in systems and operations research, minor in mathematics
Oct 1987 Master of Sciences (Eng.), TKK Major in systems and operations research, minor in computer science

Positions since 1993
Jan 2010 – Aalto University Professor in Systems Analysis Vice-Head of Department, Aug 2011 –
Nov 2000 – Dec 2009 Helsinki University of Technology Professor in Systems Analysis Tenured 1.11.2005
Aug 1999 – Oct 2000 as above Professor in Applied Mathematics
Jan 1999 – Jul 1999 as above Researcher
Aug 1998 – Dec 1998 as above Professor in Applied Mathematics
Jan 1997 – Jul 1998 VTT Group for Technology Studies Senior Researcher
Oct 1994 – Jan 1997 Nokia Research Center Senior Consultant
Oct 1993 – Sep 1994 Universität Mannheim Alexander von Humboldt- Fellow
Sep 1993 – Sep 1994 TKK, Systems Analysis Laboratory Researcher
Jun 1993 – Aug 1993 London Business School Visiting Researcher

Research visits
July 2010 (one month) Ecole Centrale Paris Visiting Professor
Jan 2010 (3 weeks) University of Vienna Visiting Professor
Feb 2009 – Aug 2009 Université Paris-Dauphine Visiting Professor
Sep 2008 – Jan 2009 London Business School Visiting Professor

Appointments
Dec 1996 Docent, quantitative methods of economics, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration
Feb 1999 Docent, systems analysis, TKK
 

Scientific positions of trust
Member of the Management Committee of the COST Action IS1304 on Expert Judgment Network: Bridging The Gap Between Scientific Uncertainty And Evidence-Based Decision Making, 2013-2016.
President of the Finnish Operations Research Society (FORS), 1999-2000 and 2010-2011. Vice-President of FORS 2007-2009, member of the Board since 1999-.
Member of the Board of the Association of the Parliament Members and Researchers (Tutkijoiden ja kansanedustajien seura, Tutkas), 1999-.
European and Middle East regional representative in the International Activities Committee of INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), 2010-2011.
Member of the Management Committee of the French-Finnish Association for Scientific Research and Technology (Association Franco-Finlandaise pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique, AFFRST), 2011-. Vice-member of the Management Committee, 2008-2010.
Member of the Management Committee of the COST Action IC0602 on Algorithmic Decision Theory, 2008-2011.
Member of the Finnish Academy of Technology, 2003-.
Chairman of the systems analysis section of the Scientific Advisory Board for Defence, 2013-. Vice-Chairman of the section in 2008-2012 and its member since 2002.
Member of the Steering Group of the Graduate School on Systems Analysis, Decision Making and Risk Management, 2001-2013.
Member of the Steering Group of Helsinki Institute of Science and Technology Studies (HIST), 2004-2009. Vice-President 2008-2009.
Member of the Advisory Board of VTT Technology Studies, 2002-2005.
Member of the High Level Expert Group on Technology Foresight, appointed by DG Research of the European Commission, 2000-2001.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Group of the Technological Scenarios Programme at the Systems Analysis Department, RISOE Research Institute, Roskilde, Denmark, 2001-2002.

Awards and prizes
INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Decision Analysis Society’s 2005 Best Student Paper awarded for “Contingent Portfolio Programming for the Management of Risky Projects”, co-authored with Janne Gustafsson.
Finalist in the competition for INFORMS Decision Analysis Society’s 2007 Practice Award with a case study “Integrated Multi-Criteria Budgeting for Maintenance and Rehabilitation Policies at the Finnish Road Administration”, presented with Pekka Mild.

Editorial responsibilities
Editor-in-Chief of EURO Journal on Decision Processes, a journal established by the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) in 2011 (first issue to appear in 2013).
Associate Editor of Decision Analysis (2007-2010), a journal established by the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society in 2004.
Member of the Editorial Boards of Decision Analysis (2011-), International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (2002-), International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy (2004-), Intelligent Decision Technologies (2007-), The Open Operational Research Journal (2007-), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (2010-).
Regular referee for a large range of international journals in decision analysis, decision support systems, foresight methodologies, innovation management (incl. Management Science, Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Research Policy, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Decision Sciences, International Journal of Technology Management, Group Decision and Negotiation).

Scientific Conferences
Member of the Programme Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2014), March 2014, Angers, France.
Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the 11th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference and the Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference (PSAM 2012 & ESREL 11), June 2012, Helsinki, Finland.
Member of the Programme Committee of Group Decision & Negotiation 2012 (GDN 2012), May 2012, Recife, Brazil.
Member of the International Committee of the 2012 International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, e-Education, and e-Technology, March 2012, Hong Kong, China.
Member of the Conference Committee of the 4th International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA), May 2011, Sevilla, Spain.
Member of the Programme Committee of Group Decision & Negotiation 2011 (GDN 2011), June 2011, Amman, Jordania.
Chairman of the Programme Committee of the Aalto Event on Science and Technology in Society, August 2011, Helsinki, Finland.
Member of the International Program Committee of the 2nd KES International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT 2010), July 2010, Baltimore, USA.
Member of the International Scientific Programme Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Operational Research (ICAOR 2010), August 2010, Turku, Finland.
Member of the Program Committee of Group Decision & Negotiation 2010 (GDN 2010), July 2010, Delft, the Netherlands.
Member of the Programme Committee of the 1st International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2009), October 2009, Venice, Italy.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 4th European Conference on Technology Management (EuroMOT 2009), September 2009, Glasgow, UK.
Member of the International Program Committee of Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT 2009), April 2009, Himeji, Japan.
Member of the International Committee of the 2010 International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, and e-Education (e-CASE 2010), January 2010, Macau.
Member of the International Committee of the 2009 International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, and e-Education (e-CASE 2009), January 2009, Singapore.
INFORMS Decision Analysis Society sub-stream co-organizer in collaboration with Prof. Don N. Kleinmuntz at the 18th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), July 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Vice-President of the Organization Committee of the 67th meeting of the European Working Group Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding, April 2008, Rovaniemi, Finland.
Invited opening plenary speaker at the 15th Mini-EURO Conference Managing Uncertainty in Decision Support Modelling, September 2004, Coimbra, Portuga.
Member of the Scientific Committee and Technological Futures Analysis Methods Working Group for the EU-US Scientific Seminar on New Technology Foresight, Forecasting & Assessment Methods, May 2004, Seville, Spain.

Evaluation of Candidates for Awards and Academic Positions
Member of the jury of the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA) of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO), 2010, 2012 and 2013.
Evaluator of Dr. Aron Larsson for appointment as Docent in data and systems sciences, Stockholm University 2012.
Evaluator of candidates for appointment as Professor in futures studies, University of Turku, 2012.
Evaluator of candidates for appointment as Senior Lecturer in computer and systems sciences, with specialization in systems analysis, Stockholm University, 2011.
Evaluator of candidates for appointment as Professor in technology foresight and innovation, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), 2011.
Evaluator of candidates for appointment as Professor in military technology, National Defence University, Finland, 2011.
Evaluator of candidates for appointment as Senior Lecturer in computer and systems sciences, with specialization in systems analysis, especially mathematical and statistical modelling within the energy sector, Stockholm University, 2011.
Evaluator of Dr. Aron Larsson for appointment as Associate Senior Lecturer in computer and systems sciences, with a specialization in computer-aided decision support in society, Stockholm University 2010.
Evaluator of the achievements of Dr. Afzal Siddiqui for promotion to Senior Lecturer at the University College of London (UCL), 2010.
Evaluator of candidates for appointment as Senior Lecturer in computer and systems sciences, with specialization in systems analysis, Stockholm University, 2010.
Evaluator of candidates for appointment as Professor in business mathematics, Vaasa University, 2008.
Evaluator of candidates for appointment as Senior Lecturer in computer and systems science with specialization in system analysis, Stockholm University, 2008.
Evaluator of candidates for appointment as Assistant Senior Lecturer in systems analysis at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2007.
Evaluator of the qualifications of PhD Henrik Bruun for acting as Professor in environmental protection technology in 2006 (TKK, ’05).
Evaluator of the qualifications of PhD Richard Langlais for acting as Professor in environmental protection in 2006 (TKK, ’06).

Examination of Doctoral Theses
External rapporteur in the examination of the Doctoral Dissertation of Olivier Cailloux (Ecole Centrale Paris, France, ‘12).
External rapporteur in the examination of the Doctoral Dissertation of Jun Zheng (Ecole Centrale Paris, France, ‘12).
External examiner of the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Thesis of Alex Koh (Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, ’11).
Examiner of the Doctoral Dissertation of Mart Landsberg (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, ’08).
Official Opponent in the defence of the Doctoral Dissertation of Jim Idefeldt (Mittuniversitet, ’07) and Xiaosong Ding (Mittuniversitet, Sweden, ’05).
Preliminary examiner in the Doctoral Dissertation of Kaj-Mikael Björk (Åbo Akademi University, Finland, ’06).
Preliminary examiner (’05) and official opponent (’06) in the Doctoral Dissertation of Raimo Voutilainen (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland).
Official opponent in the defence of the Licentiate Thesis of Jim Johansson (Mitthögskolan, Sweden, ’04).

Other Scientific Duties
Member of the Evaluation Panel of the Laboratoire d'Analyse et Modélisation de Systèmes pour l'Aide à la Decision (LAMSADE), a joint laboratory of Université Paris Dauphine and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), 2012.
Member of the Evaluation Panel of the Finnish Metals and Engineering Competence Cluster (FIMECC), 2012.
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz-Programme on Technology, Innovation, and Society (TIS), 2010-14.
Member of the Management Committee of the EU COST IC0601 Action on Algorithmic Decision Theory, 2008-11.
Member of the International Evaluation Panel of the Helmholtz-Programme on Technology, Society and Innovation, 2009.
Project manager of FinnSight 2015, the joint national foresight exercise of the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes), 2005-06.
Chairman of the International Evaluation Panel of the German technology foresight exercise Futur, 2004-05.
Invited presenter on foresight methodologies at the brainstorming workshop Shaping the European dimension of foresight, organized by DG Research, March 2005.
Participant in the EU COST A22 Action on European Network for Foresight Methodologies, 2004-.
Guest Editor (in collaboration with Dr. Kerstin Cuhls) of a special issue on technology foresight for Journal of Forecasting, 2003.
Reviewer of technology assessment and foresight projects in the EU-funded STRATA-research programme on Strategic Analysis of Specific Science and Technology Policy Issues, 2002.
Reviewer of results from the European Science and Technology Observatory project on the monitoring of technological forecasting, technology assessment, technology foresight activities in the European Union, 2001.
 

Research training
Instructor and supervisor of fourteen Doctoral Theses (Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita ‘04, Janne Gustafsson ‘05, Simo Makkonen ‘05, Totti Könnölä ‘06, Kari Alanne ‘07, Toni Jarimo ’08; Juuso Liesiö ’08, Janne Kettunen ’09, Ville Brummer ’10, Kimmo Soramäki ’12, Antti Punkka ‘13, Tommi Ekholm '13, Anssi Käki '14, Eeva Vilkkumaa '14) and ten Licentiate Theses. Supervisor of more than 126 Master’s Theses since 2000.
Director of a research group with five full-time doctoral students at Aalto University. Supervisor of five doctoral students employed at at other organizations.
Invited lecturer at the International MCDM Summer School, Taiwan, July 2006 and Paris, June 2010.
Lecturer of graduate level courses on decision analysis and problem solving (~50 students per year), risk analysis (~100), investment science (~60) and seminar on case studies in operations research (~16-35) which all qualify for doctoral studies.