Education
1994: Dr.Tech. in Applied Mathematics, HUT, Faculty of Information Technology, Systems Analysis Laboratory; Doctoral thesis: An Object-Oriented Mathematical Modelling System.
1991: Lic.Tech. in Applied Mathematics, HUT, Faculty of Information Technology, Systems Analysis Laboratory; Subsidiary subject: Knowledge Engineering.
1985: M.Sc. in Systems and Operations Research, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Department of Technical Physics; Subsidiary subject: Computer Science.
Recent Positions
2009- Helsinki University of Technology/Aalto University: Professor in Energy Technology for Communities
2000-2009 University of Turku: Full professor in Computer Science.
1997-2000: Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), research professor in Energy markets (nomination for 3-year term).
1994-1997: University of Jyväskylä, sequence of pro term professorships.
1990-1994: Helsinki University of Technology, project manager, assistant professor
1985-1990: Nokia Telecommunications, Nokia Reserch Center, software method development
Research Areas
Energy: Modelling, Simulation, Optimization
Multi-criteria decision support: Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA), Public environmental decision making, Strategic planning, Production planning and logistics.
Supervised Theses
Professor Lahdelma has currently 12 post-graduate students under supervision and he has supervised in total 80 MSc Theses, 9 Doctoral Theses and 1 Licentiate Thesis.
International Awards and Recognitions
2005: Best paper award (with Petkovic) at the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (AKRR’05).
