Short CV
Jesse Railo
Jesse Railo
Full CV may be made available upon a request. Updated last time in July 2025.
Current position: Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland.
Other associations: I'm a PI in the Flagship of Advanced Mathematics for Sensing, Imaging and Modelling (FAME) of the Research Council of Finland.
Citizenship: Finnish.
Languages: Finnish (native), English (fluent), Swedish (basics).
Civil status: Married since July 2015 and a father of one child. We also have a husky dog (check out boy's Instagram)!
2024: Title of Docent in Mathematical Foundations of Inverse Problems at Computational Engineering, School of Engineering Sciences, LUT University, Finland.
2019: PhD degree (with distinction) in Mathematics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
PhD thesis: Geodesic Tomography Problems on Riemannian manifolds
(advisor: Prof. Mikko Salo).
2014: BSc degree in Mathematics with minors in Computer Science and Statistics / MSc degree in Mathematics at the University of Tampere, Finland.
MSc thesis: On Computational Inverse Problems – the statistical approach with an application to atmospheric remote sensing (in Finnish)
(advisor: Prof. Johanna Tamminen, Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki).
Prizes, grants, honours:
2025: EMS Young Academy Member 2025 - 2028.
2024: Grant for International Research Visit (Research Foundation of LUT University, LAB University and Saimaa Vocational College Sampo), 10 000 EUR.
2024: Project Grant (Emil Aaltosen Säätiö), 200 000 EUR.
2024: Principal Investigator in the Doctoral Education Pilot for Mathematics of Sensing, Imaging and Modelling (Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland), 2024 - 2027, 510 000 EUR (of total 25.5 M€).
2024: Principal Investigator in the Flagship of Advanced Mathematics for Sensing, Imaging and Modelling (Research Council of Finland), 2024 - 2031.
2023: ASLA-Fulbright Research Grant for Junior Scholars 2024 - 2025 (Fulbright Finland Foundation), 30 000 USD.
2023: Homing Grant (Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation), 75 000 EUR.
2020: Finnish Inverse Prize of the Finnish Inverse Problems Society.
2020: Foundations' Post Doc Pool Grant (Finnish Academy of Science and Letters), 91 000 EUR.
Research output: 19 published articles and 4 preprints with 24 different co-authors.
Supervision: Research level: 1 senior researcher, 3 postdoctoral researchers, 4 doctoral researchers (2 first advisor, 2 second advisor). MSc: 1 supervised and 3 examined theses. BSc: 1 thesis under supervision.
Academic activity: A member of organizing committee for 2 conferences, organizer of 2 minisymposiums, referee for 13 different journals, several research talks, many travel grants, etc. Membership of the Inverse Problems International Association (IPIA), the Finnish Mathematical Society (SMY) and the Finnish Inverse Problems Society (FIPS) .
Contact teaching: About 20 courses in 5 different universities.
2023 -> Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics (Computational Engineering, School of Engineering Sciences), LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland.
2025 Visiting Fulbright Scholar / Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, California, USA.
2021 - 2023 Visiting Research Fellow (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) at the University of Cambridge, UK.
2020 - 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher (Seminar for Applied Mathematics) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
2020 Postdoctoral Researcher (Inverse Problems) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
2018 Research/Teaching Assistant (Industrial Mathematics) at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
2015 - 2019 PhD degree in Mathematics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
2014 - 2015 Research Assistant (Geophysics) at the Department of Physics / Oulu Mining School, University of Oulu, Finland.
2013 - 2014 Research Assistant (Atmospheric Remote Sensing) at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland.
2011 - 2012 Erasmus Student (Physics and Applied Mathematics) at the University of Sheffield, UK.
2010 - 2014 BSc/MSc degrees + Teaching Assistant in Mathematics at the University of Tampere, Finland.
2009 - 2010 Electrical and Automation Engineering (BSc) studies at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland.
2006 - 2009 3-year vocational college degree (datanomi) in Computer Science at the local college in my home town Kouvola, Finland.