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Solar Wind, Planetary Atmospheres, Comets, Satellite Instruments, Weather Radar, Data Infrastructures
Finland
Biography
Born 1949 in Hann-Münden / Germany
Ph.D. thesis 1980 University of Freiburg/Germany in molecular physics reaction dynamics
Physics assistant at the University of Kuopio 1980-82
Head of Computer Operations at EISCAT/Kiruna 1982-88
Senior scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki since 1988:
1997 – 2003: Head of the planetary research group at FMI
2004 – 2007: Head of the solar system research group at FMI
2008 – 2016: Research manager in the Radar and Space technology group of FMI’s Earth Observation R&D unit
2017 - 1/2019: Research fellow at Aalto University, Espoo, School of Electrical Engineering
2017 - now: QA manager for ISAWARE Ltd., Helsinki
2017 - now: retired