Jyrki Katajainen: Curriculum vitae

1. Full name

Jyrki Juhani Katajainen

2. Date and place of birth

30 December 1957, Turku, Finland

3. Private

I live with my wife Lone and our three children: Sini (born 1994), Eevi (born 1998), and Olli (born 2002). I have three other children from a previous relationship: Mickel (born 1983), Max (born 1985), and Maj (born 1987).

4. Education

Turun Normaalikoulu, Finland
Matriculation examination, May 1976

Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Finland
B.Sc., Dec 1979
M.Sc., Oct 1980

Department of Computer Science, University of Turku, Finland
Licentiate in Philosophy, Jun 1983
Ph.D., Dec 1987

5. Knowledge of languages

Fluent in Finnish, Swedish, and English; an excellent ability to understand Danish

6. Current appointment

Department of Computing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Associate Professor, since Mar 1993

7. Previous professional appointments

Department of Computer Science, University of Turku, Finland
Deputy Mathematician (3 months) 1979 - 1980
Deputy Assistant (total 1 year 7 months) 1980 - 1981
Assistant (total 2 years 11 months) 1982 - 1986
Deputy Lecturer (total 1 year 3 months) 1980 - 1983
Deputy Associate Professor (6 months) 1984
Senior Lecturer (total 1 year 1 month) 1988 - 1991
Professor (4 months) 1999
Docent (11 years) 1993 - 2004

Ministry of Education, Finland
Ph.D. student (4 months) 1985

Academy of Finland
Junior Researcher (3 years) 1987 - 1989
Researcher in the project Parallel models of computation and parallel algorithms (6 months) 1992

Department of Computing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Deputy Associate Professor (total 1 year 2 months) 1991 - 1993

Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, Finland
Docent (12 years) 1992 - 2004

Ministry of Education, Denmark
Member of the national corps of external examiners in computing (5 years 9 months) 2002 - 2007

8. Compulsory military service

Satakunta Artillery Regiment, Finland
Conscript soldier (8 months) 1978 - 1979

9. Administrative experience

Supremum (mathematics students' association), University of Turku, Finland
Vice-chairperson (9 months) 1978

Turku Miniature Golf Club, Finland
Chairperson (5 years 10 months) 1978 - 1983

Conscript Soldiers' Committee, Satakunta Artillery Regiment, Finland
Chairperson (5 months) 1978 - 1979

Finnish Federation of Miniature Golf Clubs, Finland
Vice-chairperson (1 year) 1981 - 1982

Committee for Curriculum Planning in Computer Science, University of Turku, Finland
Secretary (total 3 years) 1985 - 1991

Foundation Silverräven (Rudolf Steiner kindergarten), Linköping, Sweden
Secretary (9 months) 1989

10. Other professional activities

a) Preliminary examination of Ph.D. theses

Hannu Toivonen: Discovery of Frequent Patterns in Large Data Collections, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, 1996

Lauri Malmi: On Updating and Balancing Relaxed Balanced Search Trees in Main Memory, Laboratory of Information Processing Science, Helsinki University of Technology, 1997

Kurt Swanson: Studies in Applied Data Structures, Department of Computer Science, Lund University, 1998

N. Jesper Larsson, Structures of String Matching and Data Compression, Lund University, 1999

Gianni Franceschini, On the Computational Power of Permutations in Sorting and Searching Problems, University of Pisa, 2005

Nikolas Askitis, Efficient Data Structures for Cache Architectures, RMIT University, 2007

b) Assessment committee membership

Assessment of the candidates for a position as associate professor in algorithmics at Chalmers University of Technology, May 2000

Assessment of the candidates for the two Ph.D. scholarships announced under the Trustworthy Pervasive Health-Care Services project at the University of Copenhagen, May 2008

c) Education evaluation

Education evaluation in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Joensuu, Spring 2002

d) Organizing committee membership

Secretary, 2nd Finnish Summer School on Theoretical Computer Science, Parainen, Aug 1985

Chair, 1st Copenhagen Meeting on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Copenhagen, Aug 1993

Chair, 2nd Copenhagen Conference on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Copenhagen, May 1995

Co-chair, Algorithm Day in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Sept 1997

Chair, Summer School on Experimental Algorithmics, Rungsted Kyst, July 2004

Conference chair, 9th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Humlebæk, July 2004

e) Program committee membership

Co-Chair, 2nd Copenhagen Conference on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Copenhagen, May 1995

20th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Sydney, Feb 1997

21st Australasian Computer Science Conference, Perth, Feb 1998

22nd Australasian Computer Science Conference, Auckland, Jan 1999

23rd Australasian Computer Science Conference, Canberra, 31 Jan - 3 Feb 2000

24th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Gold Coast, 29 Jan - 2 Feb 2001

25th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Melbourne, 28 Jan - 1 Feb 2002

8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Turku, July 2002

26th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Adelaide, Feb 2003

27th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Dunedin, Jan 2004

9th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Humlebæk, July 2004

28th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Newcastle, 31 Jan - 3 Feb 2005

Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, Puebla, Sept 2005

29th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Hobart, Jan 2006

2009 Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, New York City, Jan 2009

17th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, Sept 2009

11. Sport achievements

1975 Gold medal, Finnish Miniature Golf Championships (Junior)

1979 Gold medal, Finnish Miniature Golf Championships (Team)

1979 Silver medal, Finnish Miniature Golf Championships (Senior)

1980 Silver medal, Finnish In-Door Miniature Golf Championships (Senior)

1982 Gold medal, Finnish Miniature Golf Championships (Team)

1982 Bronze medal, European Miniature Golf Championships (Team)

1984 Silver medal, Finnish Miniature Golf Championships (Senior)