CV Timo Nousiainen

Title Senior reseacher
Contact timo.nousiainen@fmi.fi
Postal address PL 503, 00101 Helsinki
Street address Erik Palmenin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki

Fields of expertise

  • Electromagnetic and light scattering

  • Physical meteorology

  • Atmospheric remote sensing

  • Mineral dust

  • Ice clouds

  • Noctilucent clouds

University and other degrees

  • 2006 Docentship (Meteorology), University of Helsinki

  • 2002 PhD degree in Meteorology, University of Helsinki, "Light scattering by nonspherical atmospheric particles"

  • 1997 Licentiate degree in Meteorology, University of Helsinki, "Light scattering by Gaussian, randomly oscillating raindrops"

  • 1994 Master degree in Meteorology, University of Helsinki, "Valaisevat yöpilvet" (in Finnish; title in English "Noctilucent clouds")

Previous professional appointments

  • 2008 - 2013: Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki

  • 2005 - 2008: Postdoctoral Researcher of the Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki

  • 2003 - 2004: Post-doc Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • 2003 - 2004: Science subcontractor for the Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, USA, through Battelle Chapel Hill Operations

  • 2000 - 2002: OMI project scientist, Finnish Meteorological Institute

  • 1994 - 2000: Doctoral student, University of Helsinki