Timo Lähivaara

Timo Lähivaara

University of Eastern Finland

Timo Lähivaara completed his doctoral degree at the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, in 2010, with a dissertation titled “Discontinuous Galerkin method for time-domain wave problems.” He is currently a Research Director at the Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland. Lähivaara’s expertise lies in utilizing high-performance computing to address wave-dominated inverse problems, with a keen interest in applications like monitoring groundwater resources using seismic data and estimating the shape of scatterers using electromagnetic waves. Lähivaara looks forward to the opportunities for collaboration with companies facilitated by the FAME Flagship.