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CURRICULUM VITAE
Nov 2014
Matti KUMMU, D.Sc.
Contact details: Water & Development Research Group
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
School of Engineering, Aalto University
Tietotie 1E, 02150 Espoo
Finland
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.wdrg.fi/matti
Note: the former Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) now operates within Aalto
University (AALTO). The School of Engineering (AALTO ENG) is one of Aalto’s 6 Schools.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date and place of birth 18th of July 1977 in Helsinki, Finland
Gender
Male
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
12/2008
10/2002
Doctor of Science in Technology (with distinction) from the former Helsinki University of
Technology (TKK), Water Research Group. Major subject: Hydrology and water resources.
Thesis title: “Spatio-temporal scales of hydrological impact assessment in large river basins:
the Mekong case”. Supervisor: Prof Olli Varis.
Master of Science from the former Helsinki University of Technology, Water Research Group.
Major subject: Hydraulic Engineering; Minor subject: Geoinformatics. Thesis title: “Roughness
characteristics and velocity profile in vegetated and nonvegetated channel”.
Part of the studies for the M.Sc. degree conducted at: Lund University of Technology (Sweden);
University of Zaragoza (Spain); University of Puerto Rico; and Universidad de Chile.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2014
2012
2011-2012
Aalto University Pedagogical Training I (ongoing – 15/25 ECTS done)
Participation to Aalto’s mentor programme as a mentee
Aalto Future Research Leaders' Programme
LINGUISTIC SKILLS
Finnish
English
Spanish
Swedish
Speaking
Native
Excellent
Very good
Good
Writing
Native
Excellent
Good
Good
Reading
Native
Excellent
Very good
Very good
AFFILIATIONS
2013-present
2013-2016
2012-2013
2009-2012
2009-2011
2002-2008
2002-2006
2002
1999-2000
Assistant professor (tenure track) at Water & Development Research Group, Aalto University
Academy of Finland Postdoctoral fellow
Aalto ENG Postdoctoral fellow (‘tutkijatohtori’) at Water & Development Research Group, Aalto
University, Finland (competitive research post).
TKK Postdoctoral fellow (‘tutkijatohtori’) at Water & Development Research Group, Aalto
University, Finland (competitive research post).
Visiting Postdoctoral fellow at the VU University Amsterdam (in total 9 months)
Research scientist and doctoral candidate at Water Research Group, former Helsinki
University of Technology, Finland
Research consultant (part time) under Mekong River Commission, employed by Environmental
Impact Assessment Centre of Finland Ltd.
Research assistant (conducting MSc thesis) at Water Research Group, former Helsinki
University of Technology, Finland
Assistant (part time) Department of Mathematics, former Helsinki University of Technology
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A. RESEARCH
A.1. PUBLICATIONS (as of Nov 17th 2014)
An overview of all publications is given below (details are provided in the ‘List of publications’):
Scientific publ. 121 of which 68 are peer-reviewed
Articles
Conferences
Editorials
Theses
Other
54 journal articles (of which 51 are peer-reviewed) + 6 articles under review/revision
First author: 14
Senior author: 10
Articles without PhD supervisor: 30
9 journal articles in Finnish (not full peer-review)
7 book chapters (of which 7 are peer-reviewed)
33 conference publications (of which 10 are peer-reviewed)
4 (editor in 2 international journal special issues and in 2 books)
2 academic theses
19 (18 publications intended for professional communities + 1 artistic and design activity)
A.2. CITATIONS (as of Nov 17th 2014)
Web of Knowledge:
Scopus:
Google Scholar:
52 documents; 558 citations; h-index: 13 (www.researcherid.com/rid/C-4797-2011)
48 documents; 612 citations; h-index: 13 (goo.gl/B19Ke)
98 documents; 1242 citations; h-index: 18 (goo.gl/hZF14)
A.3. RESEARCH WORK EXPERIENCE
2010-2012
2010-2012
2009
2008-2009
2008-2009
2002-2008
2005-2007
2007
2006
2006
2004-2006
2004
2002-2004
2002
2000
Team leader & co-principal researcher: Modelling component of the Mekong Project 3 - On
multiple use of reservoirs under the CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water & Food.
Co-team leader & co-principal researcher: Exploring Mekong Region Futures: Tonle Sap Lake
case study. Project led by CSIRO, funded by AusAID and CSIRO.
Principal researcher: Investigation of the impact of upstream development on Fishing Lot 2
and the Prek Toal Core Area; work under WCS Cambodia. Cambodia.
Co-team leader and co-principal researcher: Water and Climate Change in the Lower Mekong
Basin. Funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland.
Researcher: Improving Mekong Water Allocation (PN67), under CGIAR Challenge Programme
on Water & Food. Part of the large consortium lead by Griffin nrm.
Doctoral candidate: “Spatio-temporal scales of hydrological impact assessment in large river
basins: the Mekong case”. Partial funding from the Academy of Finland (# 111672)
Researcher: Academy of Finland (#211010): “Integrated water resources management in the
Mekong”
Researcher: Geomorphology & hydrology work for the Songkhram E-Flow work under IUCN.
Thailand.
Researcher: Technical Feasibility of Dredging the Tonle Sap Lake for Navigation, for Mekong
River Commission Navigation Programme. Cambodia.
Researcher: Impact of Climate Change on hydrology in Nam Songkhram, Thailand. Part of the
USAID and IRG project.
Researcher and training responsible: Lower Mekong Basin modelling project (WUP-FIN2).
Finnish government funded project for the Mekong River Commission (MRC). www.eia.fi/wupfin. Lao PDR, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand.
Researcher: Support to the management of sudd blockage on Lake Kyoga. UK government
funded project for the Integrated Lake Management project. Uganda
Researcher: Tonle Sap Modelling project (WUP-FIN). Finnish government funded project for the
Mekong River Commission (MRC). www.eia.fi/wup-fin. Cambodia
Research assistant: M.Sc. research project “Roughness characteristics and velocity profile in
vegetated and nonvegetated channel”
Undergraduate research fellow: “Reservoir operation using fuzzy logic: case Kokemäenjoki.”
A.4. SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION
International academic mobility:
2009-11
Visiting Postdoctoral fellow at the VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
(FALW) (in total 9 months).
Number of co-authors in journal articles (according to Scopus): 81
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A.5. RESEARCH GRANTS
Large competitive research grants (PI stands for principal investigator):
2013-2016
PI: Academy of Finland Postdoctoral fellow; Funding for 3 yr postdoc project (273’410 EUR)
2012-2014
PI: Aalto ENG Postdoctoral fellow; Funding for 1+1 yr postdoctoral project (110’000 EUR)
2009-2012
PI: TKK Postdoctoral fellow; Funding for 3 yr postdoctoral project (180’000 EUR)
2006-2009
Researcher: Academy of Finland (#111672); Funding for doctoral studies (157’720 EUR)
Large competitive research projects (where principal or co-principal investigator):
2010-2012
PI: Modelling component of the Mekong Project 3 - On multiple use of reservoirs under the
CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water & Food (95,000 USD)
2010-2012
Co-PI: Exploring Mekong Region Futures: Tonle Sap Lake case study. Project led by CSIRO,
funded by AusAID and CSIRO (200,000 AUD)
Small research grants (smaller than 10’000 EUR):
MVTT (three travel grants, one individual scholarship and one field work grant), Sven Hallin (field work grant,
travel grant), RIL (personal scholarship), Tekniikan edistämissäätiö (personal scholarship), Research grant from
TKK (personal scholarship), Ella ja Georg Ehnrooth Foundation (personal scholarship)
A.6. AWARDS
2011
2009
Winner of the best article award 2010 in Environmental Research Letters (impact factor:
3.631) with Kummu et al. 2010. ERL 5: 034006 (citations in Web of Knowledge: 22)
Best doctoral thesis award 2008 from Oskari Vilamo foundation (award for best DSc thesis in
Civil engineering in Finland)
B. TEACHING
B.1. COURSE TEACHING AND ORGANISING
2013
2005-2011
2007 & 2009
2007
2004-2005
1999-2000
Responsible teacher for Global Water Problems –course (Yhd-12.136)
Various visiting lectures in the following courses at Aalto University:
- Yhd-12.136 Global Water Problems
- Yhd-12.106 Vesitalouden perusteet
- A-36.3502 City in Crisis II
Part of the organisation committee of the Global Water Problems –course (Yhd-12.136)
Tutor in Sustainable Global Technologies studio –course (Yhd-12.3091)
Teacher and coordinator in several 1-3 day intensive courses and workshops on hydrological
and hydrodynamic modelling for impact at the following universities:
Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Rural University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia),
National University of Laos, Khon Kaen University (Thailand), Can Tho University
(Vietnam), HCMC University of Natural Sciences (Vietnam), HCMC University of Technology
(Vietnam), Water Resources University (Vietnam)
Course assistant in 2 mathematics courses at the former Helsinki University of Technology
B.2. SUPERVISING
Instruction of Doctoral theses:
2013 Jalava, M: “Impact of diet change on global water resources” (2013-2017)
2012 –
Lauri, H: “Modelling monsoon hydrology: case Mekong” (-2015)
2011 –
Porkka, M: “The role of virtual water trade in physical water scarcity” (2011-2015)
2009 –
Räsänen, T: “Anthropogenic impacts on hydrology in the Mekong” (2009-2014)
2009 –
Salmivaara, A: “Water resources vulnerability of the Southeast Asian basins” (2009-2014)
Member of a PhD Committee:
2010-2013
Arias, M; University of Canterbury, NZ: “Impacts of hydrological alterations in the Mekong
Basin to the Tonle Sap ecosystem”
Instructed Master’s theses:
2014
Munia, H. “The role of upstream water use on water stress in transboundary river basins”
2012
Banafa, T: “Reservoir evaporation in monsoon climate”
2012
Yli-Siuru, S: “Accuracy of TRMM data in modelling hydrology under monsoon climate”
2011
Porkka, M: “The role of virtual water trade in physical water scarcity: Case Central Asia”
2009
Härkönen, S: “Greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs: assessing the net emissions”
2009
Salmivaara, A: “Water resources vulnerability in the Irrawaddy and Salween River”
2009
Västilä, K: “Climate change impacts on floods in the Lower Mekong Floodplains”
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2008
Melkko, H: “Water footprints of biofuels for transport”
2007
Liljeström, I: “Nitrogen and Phosphorus Dynamics in the Mekong Basin”
Instructed Bachelor’s theses:
2014
Heino, M.: ”Kuivuudet ja niiden vaikutukset globaaliin ruoantuotantoon”
2013
Sipilä, M.: Metsien hakkuun vaikutus tropiikin hydrologiaan”
2013
Ylä-Soininmäki, M.: ”Onko hydrologinen vaihtelu lisääntynyt Suomessa?”
2012
Henriksson, E.: ”Maapallon väestön ruokavalion vaikutukset ruuantuotantoon”
2009
Kirves, R.: ”Siperian suuret joet Ob, Yenisey ja Lena - Vesivarat ja niiden käyttö”
2008
Porkka, M.: ”Kumulatiivisten vaikutusten arviointi Mekongin valuma-alueella”
B.3. INVITED SEMINAR LECTURES (10)
Aalto University (2), EFEO (École française d'Extrême-Orient) Cambodia, ETH Zurich, National University of
Singapore (2), UNESCO-IHE Delft, University of Southampton, University of Wageningen, UPMC Paris
C. ACTIVITY IN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY AND ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP
C.1. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANISING
05/2007
Co-organiser: Mekong at the Crossroads, Chiang Mai, Thailand (60 participants)
02/2006
Main organiser: Modern myths of the Mekong, Vientiane, Lao PDR (40 participants)
02/2005
Co-organiser: Integrated water resources management on the Tonle Sap Lake, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia (30 participants)
C.2. JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEWING (frequency: ca. 2-4 requests per month)
Ambio, Boreal Environment, Climatic Change, Environmental Management, Environmental Research Letters,
Geophysical Researh Letters, Global and Planetary Change, Global Environmental Change, Hydrology and Earth
Systems Sciences, Hydrological Processes, International Journal of Water Resources Development, Journal of
Environmental Management, Journal of River Basin Management, Journal of Water Resources Planning and
Management, Landscape Ecology, Natural Hazards, PLoS ONE, Quaternary International, Water, Water
Resources Management, Water Resources Research
C.3. EVALUATION TASKS
2012
2008
Evaluator for The Leverhulme Trust (UK) grant application
Evaluator for National Geographic Society (USA) grant application
C.4. SERVICES OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
2014-2016
10/2013
01/2013
03/2012
09/2010
Member of Finnish Publication Forum (Julkaisufoorumi) panel 5 ‘Geosciences and
environmental sciences’
Invited presentation at ‘Väestön kasvu ja väestöpolitiikka -luentosarja’
Invited presentation at ‘Tieteen päivät 2013’ (Science days 2013)
Invited expert hearing in Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Finland
Invited expert presentation in Finnish water protection days
C.5. RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
Research project manager or co-manager in three large international research projects:
2010-2012
Modelling component of the Mekong Project 3 - On optimizing the management of cascades or
systems of reservoirs at catchment level under the CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water &
Food Programme 2nd phase: Basin Development Challenge in the Mekong.
2010-2012
Modelling component of the Exploring Mekong Region Futures: Tonle Sap Lake case study.
Project led by CSIRO, funded by AusAID and CSIRO.
2008-2009
Water and Climate Change in the Lower Mekong Basin: Diagnosis and recommendations for
adaptation. Funded by Foreign Ministry of Finland.
C.6. PUBLIC AWARENESS PROJECTS
2012
Ta-daa data! Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 data visualisation campaign. Part of water
footprint team. openhelsinki.fi
2011
Wonderwater Café at Tian Hai, Beijing. Part of water footprint project; www.wonderwater.fi
2009
www.dropler.org –project together with AKVA (association of water students)
2008
Kun kylä kelluu –photo exhibition with M. Käkönen and M. Keskinen
2008
www.waterclock.org –project together with AKVA
2007
www.vesijalanjalki.org –project together with AKVA
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C.7. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND POSITIONS OF TRUST
20092008-2010
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2000
Member of the Finnish Association for Hydrology
Board member of WaterFinns NGO (member since 2003)
Member of the International Water History Association (IWHA)
Board member of the Guild of Civil Engineering, Foreign Affairs
Board member of AKVA (association of water students), Vice-Chairman
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