Background
Jarno Vanhatalo,
Assistant professor in statistics (starting 1.9.2016)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
and
Department of Biosciences
University of Helsinki.
My research interest is in the interface of probabilistic modeling and
bio- and environmental sciences. I am also interested in the complex
relationship between the human society and ecosystem which is one of the grand
scientific and societal challenges globally. Hence, the more applied work of
mine is related to environmental risk assessment and management.
The methodological research topics I work with include
- Bayesian modelling and decision analysis
- Gaussian
processes
- state-space models
- computational statistics and machine learning
- spatial and spatio-temporal statistics
Additionally, I work with a number of applied problems, including
- species distribution modeling
- population dynamics modeling and fisheries stock recruitment relationships
- uncertainty assessment and data fusion with environmental simulators
- environmental management and risk assessment problems
Currently, I lead also the University of Helsinki node of the Joint Research Centre of
Excellence for Arctic Shipping and Operations
(CEARCTIC) in the
Fisheries and Environmental Management Group
and am involved in the SmartSea consortium in relation to
analysing impacts of climate change to Gulf of Bothnia.
Bibliographic information can be found from
Google Scholar,
TUHAT research database,
Scopus and my list of publications.
Research Group
PhD students
- Maisa Nevalainen (MSc. in environmental sciences)
- Mikko Kotilainen (MSc. in systems analysis, affiliated in Aalto University)
- Marcelo Hartmann (MSc. in statistics)
- Jussi Mäkinen (MSc. in geography)
Former students and group members
- MSc. Lauri Ronkainen (aquatic sciences)
- Anja Wilken
Personal information
Degrees
- 2013, Adjunct professor (dosentti) in Environmental Risk Analysis, University of Helsinki,
- 2010, D.Sc. (Tech.) in computational engineering, Aalto University, School of Science and Tecnology.
- 2006, MSc (Tech.) in computational engineering, Helsinki University of techonology
Current and previous positions:
- 9/2016-: Assistant Professor is statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki
- 6/2014-: Principal investigator, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki
- 6/2013-: Adjunct professor (dosentti), University of Helsinki
- 9/2013-8/2016: Post-doctoral fellow of Academy of Finland, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki
- 9/2013-3/2014: Visiting scientist in the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, Hobart, Australia
- 9/2010-8/2013: Post-doctoral researher, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki
- 9/2006-9/2010: Phd. student, Helsinki University of Technology / Aalto University,
Laboratory of Computational Engineering
- 6/2004-8/2006: Research assistant, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering
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