Professor Nils Göran Högnäs




Summary of Curriculum Vitae



Date and place of birth: 12 June 1946, Åbo, Finland

Education, Fellowships

Filosofie doktor (DrPhil) in Applied Mathematics, Åbo Akademi University 1974

Docent in Applied Mathematics, Åbo Akademi Unviersity 1978 - 1980, University of Jyväskylä 1991 -

Fellowship Université de Strasbourg 1972-73, University of Aarhus 1976-77

Visiting Professor University of South Florida, Tampa 1977-78

Sabbatical leave, through fellowship from the Academy of Finland, 1983, 1995-96, 2003.

Shorter research periods at Rennes, Salzburg, University of South Florida

Academic Career

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Åbo Akademi University 1980-1991

Professor of Applied Mathematics, Åbo Akademi University 1991-

Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Åbo Akademi University 1992-93, Deputy Dean 1988-89

Editorships, Board Memberships

Finnish Science Research Council 1974-76; Nordic Publishing Board (NOP-N) 1975-76

Board of the Research Institute of the Åbo Akademi Foundation 1974-76, 1982-2003

Publishing Board, Åbo Akademi University Press 1987 - 2011

Member of the Åbo Akademi University Senate 1992-93, 1998-2000, deputy member 2006-09

Collegial Body of Åbo Akademi University, chairman 2010-12

Chairman of local organizing committee of the Third Finnish-Soviet Symposium on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Turku, Finland, 13-16 August 1991

Member of the Delegation of the Foundation for the Finnish Institute in France 1996-2003

Member of the Board of the Rolf Nevanlinna Institute Foundation 1999-2005

Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Graduate School in Stochastics 1998 - 2006

Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Doctoral Programme in Stochastics and Statistics 2007 - 2009, deputy member 2010 -


Member of Societas Scientiarum Fennica (Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, est. 1838) 1997 -

Estonian Doctoral School of Mathematics and Statistics, Board member 2009 -

Finnish National Graduate School in Mathematics and its Applications, Board member 2012-

Editor of Nordisk Matematisk Tidskrift ( Normat ) 1979-85

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Theoretical Probability 1988-

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Difference Equations and Applications 2008-

Thesis Committees

Thesis supervision:

Timo Koski (DrPhil 1986), Gunnar Söderbacka (DrPhil 1987), Christer Glader ( Fil. licentiat 1995), Claus Still ( Fil. licentiat 1998), Eric Skjäl ( Fil. licentiat 1998), Philippe Chanfreau ( Fil. licentiat 2000), Ray Pörn (DrPhil 2000), Stefan Emet ( Fil. licentiat 2002), Henrik Fagerholm ( Fil. licentiat 2002), Marie-Claire Koissi ( Fil. licentiat 2003), Margrét Halldórsdóttir ( Fil. licentiat 2003), Stefan Emet (DrPhil 2004), Christer Glader (DrPhil 2005), Niclas Carlsson (DrPhil 2005), Marie-Claire Koissi-Kouassi (DrPhil 2006) , Brita Ruths ( Fil. licentiat 2008), Min Wang ( Fil. licentiat 2009)

Thesis committee membership:

Matti Ruohonen (U. of Turku 1976), Pekka Tuominen (U. of Helsinki 1979, faculty opponent), Seppo Niemi (U. of Helsinki 1986), Aarni Lehtinen (lic. thesis, U. of Jyväskylä 1989), Per-Ole Nyman (U. of Twente 1992), Harri Nyrhinen (U. of Helsinki 1995), Samuli Aalto (U. of Helsinki 1998), Örjan Stenflo (U. of Umeå 1998), Marjo Haarala (lic. thesis, U. of Jyväskylä 2003), Lasse Leskelä (Helsinki U. of Technology 2005), Susanna Björkwall (lic. thesis, U. of Stockholm; 2009), Ants Kaasik (U. of Tartu 2009, faculty opponent), Robert Service (U. of Helsinki 2012)