Who: Ratava, Juho Matias
What: Associate professor (tutkijaopettaja, not apulaisprofessori), D.Sc.(Mechanical Engineering)
Where: Currently faculty staff for LUT School of Energy Systems. Used to be in the Laboratory of Production Engineering of Department of Mechanical Engineering, part of the School of Energy Systems of Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT.
When: Associate professor since February 2019. (Research Assistant from September 2007 to December 2008, Researcher in 2009, Research Engineer in 2010, Junior Researcher 2011 - June 2015, Post doc July 2015 to January 2019.) Master of Science (Technology) or Finnish diplom engineer December 2008 in Information Technology, Doctor of Science (technology) June 2015 in Mechanical Engineering.
Why: Back in the day, the Laboratory of Production Engineering was looking for a MATLAB programmer. I also do modelling, optimization, fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets. Along with a few other things.
How: SCIENCE!
Room: 6319B - Sixth building (old IT/EE house in the western side of the campus), ground floor, on the wingy bit extending towards the fourth building (primary school building).
Street: Yliopistonkatu 34, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland
Postal: LUT University / LES, P.O. Box 20, 53851 Lappeenranta, Finland
ICBM: 61° 3' 55" N, 28° 5' 35" E, elevation +105 m from sea level (approximate)
Phone: +358 40 168 3250 (work), +358 50 512 4389 (personal).
Email: Work related: last name at university domain (lut.fi) preferred, first name stop last name at the same domain also valid. No swimming-related mail at this address, please - use first name at the swimming club domain for those. If your message isn't related to work or swimming, you may want to use firstname.lastname at Gmail (dot com). E-mail is the easiest way of getting hold of me. Except if you sound a lot like spam.
Home Page: You're reading it. Old LUT staff home pages do no longer exist.
A bit more "official" work-related home page can be reached at the LUT Research Portal, but those addresses aren't really human-readable. And I don't like to be referred to as "person #166173".
I do occasionally blog at the swimming club site, though it is mostly club business.
Teaching: LES10A010 Engineering Mathematics 1, LES10A020 Engineering Mathematics 2, LES10A120 - LES10A150 Tekniikan matematiikka 1 - 4, LES10A160 Teknisen laskennan ohjelmistot, LES10A170 - LES10A180 Applied Mathematics I & II. (Note: I am not involved in LES10A030 Engineering Physics.) My timetables for the academic year 2019 - 2020 can be found on LUT TimeEdit (direct link to my timetables). Those may be missing things, like my moonlighting on Tilastomatematiikka I. Course information (including "what do I need to do to achieve what grade") will be published on LUT Moodle.
Facebook: (requires login, I guess)
Google Scholar: (link)
Instagram: @jratava
LinkedIn: (link)
Reddit: /u/avataRJ
ResearchGate: (link)
Suomi24: juho.ratava (I know, it's a horrible site. I mainly comment on swimming discussions.)
Twitter: @jratava
Scientific articles: Google actually does a pretty good job keeping track of them.
Hobbies: I do coach swimmers at one of the local swimming clubs and occasionally try to swim myself, as well. When I get some time for myself on dry land, I practice taijiquan. On top, I try to set aside some time for reading and playing some computer games.