Curriculum vitæ
September 4, 2015
Tommi Petteri Sottinen, ∗ 21.8.1973
Prof. Dr.
magister terra marique
Kalervonkatu 11 aB
00610 Helsinki
Finland
tommi.sottinen@iki.fi
www.uva.fi/∼tsottine
+358 29 449 8317
Current positions (of trust)
University of Vaasa
• Professor of Business Mathematics, 1.8.2008– (Acting 1.8.2008–31.3.2009).
Finnish Union of University Professors
• Deputy member of the board, 1.1.2014–
Finnish Doctoral Programme is Stochastics and Statistics
• Member of the board, 25.11.2009–.
• The Finnish Summer School on Probability Theory and Statistics, member of the
organizing committee, 2012–.
Education
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Docent (applied mathematics), University of Helsinki, 11.5.2006.
PhD (applied mathematics), University of Helsinki, 25.4.2003.
MSc (stochastics), University of Helsinki, 1.6.1998.
Matriculation, Kouvolan lyseon lukio, 1.6.1992.
Languages
Finnish (native), English (fluent), Swedish (intermediate), Italian (elementary), German
(elementary).
Previous positions (of trust), grants and mobility
• Vice Dean of the Faculty of Technology, 1.8.2013–31.7.2015.
• 32.000 euros from the Finnish Cultural Foundation (National Foundations’ Professor Pool), 2014.
• Chair, Finnish Union of University Professors, University of Vaasa chapter,
1.1.2013–31.12.2014.
• Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 1.8.2013–31.7.2014.
• Associate Professor of Financial Mathematics, Reykjavik University, 1.1.2008–
31.5.2008 (Faculty Member 1.6.2007–31.12.2007).
• University Lecturer of Financial Mathematics, University of Helsinki, 1.1.2005–
31.5.2009 (On leave 1.6.2007–31.5.2008 and 1.8.2008–31.5.2009).
• Doctor Assistant, University of Helsinki, 1.8.–31.12.2004.
• DYNSTOCH network post doc visits Université de Paris VI, 1.1.–31.3.2004 and
CNR-Padua, 1.5.–31.7.2004.
• NorFA network “Stochastic Analysis and its Applications” mobility scholarship,
University of Aarhus, 1.1.–31.6.2002.
• Research assistant/Researcher/PhD student/Teaching assistant, University of
Helsinki, 1.6.1997–31.12.2003.
• Teacher of computer science and mathematics, Kymenlaakso Polytechnic and Kouvola Region Vocational College, 1.8.1995–31.5.1997.
Professional activities and achievements
• Research interests: Fractional, Gaussian, self-similar, and quadratic variation processes; stochastic analysis; statistics for stochastic processes; simulation of stochastic processes; mathematical finance; financial engineering; stochastic methods in
mathematical analysis. See www.uva.fi/∼tsottine/research.html for more information.
• 23 refereed publications in international journals, proceedings or book chapters.
In addition, 4 preprints, 6 popular publications and 7 lecture notes. H index 11;
5 most cited publications have citations 133, 69, 63, 57, 32 (Google Scholar).
• Lectured 16 different courses in 3 universities in the past 20 years.
• Teacher of the year award 2011 by Tutti Ry (Student organization of the technology students at the University of Vaasa).
• 40 talks at international conferences and workshops in 15 countries, 12 invited
talks and 1 plenary talk.
• Referee for approximately 40 international journals.
• Reviewer for Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 2008 and
2010, for Fonds zur Frderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung 2013 and for Fundacão para Cincia e a Tecnologia 2012, 2013 and 2014 (panel member). External
reviewer for a university professor tenure promotion 2012.
• Reviewer for AMS Reviews, 2003–2014, and for Zentrablatt MATH, 2011–2014.
• Pre-examiner for 4 PhD theses and 2 PhLic theses.
• Supervised 3 PhD thesis. Supervised 6 MSc theses.
• Reviewer for 6 high school mathematics textbooks.
• Member of the Actuarial Society of Finland, the Finnish Mathematical Society
and the Bernoulli Society.
• Matematiikkalehti Solmu (Finnish mathematical magazine for school children),
member of the editorial board, 2003–2007.
• Co-organized 2 international conferences and 3 international summer schools.