Management
My broad daily management and leadership responsibilities include, inter alia, the following tasks:
To contact me, e.g., in issues related to running Statistics and studies at the UTU, see contact details below
Institutional responsibilities
My position and everyday work matters and responsibilities are largely related to heading Statistics (as the head of discipline) and the Turku Center of Statistics. I am also the vice head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
For the students at the UTU: If you have any questions concerning your statistics studies, please do not hesitate to contact me (firstname.surname@utu.fi)
The Statistics discipline organizes the activities of the Turku Center of Statistics, an expert body promoting cooperation in research and teaching of statistical methods between disciplines at the UTU. We organize research seminars and other meetings to strive to improve cooperation between different fields of science around statistical methods.
Official mentor
I am the Mentor for two (tenure track) assistant professors in Statistics:
Assistant Professor (Statistics) Janne Kujala
Assistant Professor (Statistics) and Academy Research Fellow Joni Virta
As appointed by the Faculty of Science, each assistant & associate professor are assigned a mentor. Mentor is responsible for agreeing personal goals and career path, monitoring their progress (research, teaching and other activities) and launching assessments of assistant professor moving to the associate level and the position of tenured professor.
Board and committee memberships
EXACTUS doctoral programme steering committee, University of Turku Graduate School
Responsible for doctoral training, including PhD students in statistics
Member of the development group of postgraduate education, Faculty of Science
Previously the member of the board of the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Computer Sciences (MATTI)
Member of the committee for development of teaching, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Vice member of the development group of degree studies education, Faculty of Science
PhD supervisor and Research director
Currently main PhD supervisor for 2 PhD students in econometrics (see econometrics.utu.fi) and one in statistics. I have already supervised 3 PhD graduates, acted as the PhD thesis opponent 2 times and 2 times the pre-examiner of PhD thesis manuscripts. See details in PhD education and my CV.
Research Director for all (currently 7) PhD students in Statistics. The duties of the research director are:
To monitor the progress of the research work and postgraduate studies annually in collaboration with the supervisor
To assume responsibility for the scientific level of the degree
To ensure that the necessary conditions for the studies are maintained;
To accept the first personal study plan of a postgraduate student and the application for the final grade of the postgraduate studies module. The research director ensures that the required learning outcomes of postgraduate studies are achieved with the completed postgraduate studies and thesis work
To ensure that the thesis as a whole meets the requirements regarding the extent of a doctoral thesis
To make a proposal for the examiners of a licentiate thesis or the pre-examiners, opponent and chairperson (custos) of a doctoral thesis
To provide the faculty with a statement approved by the supervisor, research director and student indicating the author’s contribution to the research if the thesis contains joint publications. The statement must also tell whether a part of the thesis has earlier been used in another thesis or if such use is being planned
To ensure that the intended final version of the licentiate or doctoral thesis is delivered to the faculty at the same time as the proposal for pre-examiners
To ensure that the intended final version of the licentiate or doctoral thesis is delivered to the examiners by the student, supervisor or research director immediately after their appointment
To ensure that the doctoral thesis is delivered to the opponent by the student, supervisor or research director immediately after the opponent has been appointed
To help solve possible cases of disagreement in supervision
Member of Management Committee
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