Kimmo Koski
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Kimmo Koski started in his current position as Managing Director of the Finnish IT center for science, CSC, in August 2004.
Prior to his present position, Koski spent 4.5 years at the Nokia Research Center and Nokia Technology Platform, where he was responsible for various management tasks for both the Center's and the Platform's global IT services. Earlier work experience includes 10 years at CSC in various positions, most of the time as the manager of the operational computing environment, and a one-year visiting period in CERN in Switzerland.
Koski received his doctorate from Helsinki University of Technology in January 1996. His dissertation was on Metacomputing Technology.
During the recent years Koski has been involved in European collaboration in high-performance computing (HPC) and grid activities. In 2006 he has chaired a few international groups, HPC in Europe Taskforce (HET) and Nordic Data Grid Facility, and participated in Norwegian e-infrastructure advisory group and Nordic e-Science strategy group. Koski was also involved in composing the Finnish grid strategy during 2005-2006. |
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