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I'm working as the Collaboration Director at CSC - the Finnish IT Center for Science, Espoo, FINLAND and I'm currently responsible for the internationalization at CSC and various tasks related to international collaboration.

I have been involved over the years in:

Developing World-class Research Infrastructures for the European Research Area (ERA). Report of the ERA Expert Group.
Nordic eScience: Research, Education, and Sustainable Infrastructure Services. A strategy document for the Nordic Council of Ministers.
The IT Policy group at the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen, dealing with IT policy matters in research and higher education.
White Paper "NORIA - Nordic research and innovation - Global Leadership through Closer Partnership".
Presence and flow in virtual environments:
- http://www.csc.fi/visualization/eve/takatalo/takatalo.html.fi
Funet-TV: http://tv.funet.fi/
The Public Domain of Digital Research Data, OECD Follow-up Group on Issues of Access to Publicly Funded Research Data

I'm involved in a diversity of projects and efforts like:

Science policy:

e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (chair 1.7.2006 - 31.12.2008 and 1.1.2009 -)

European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)

Programming: gOpenMol program http://www.csc.fi/gopenmol/

My personal interest has now returned to photography through the digital photography and imaging. Please have a look at my Picture of the week, and the pictures of the previous weeks (http://scarecrow.1g.fi/kuvat/Picture+Of+the+Week/).