Päivi Törmä - Curriculum Vitae#

Education and degrees

• 1996 Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Finland (S. Stenholm)
  
• 1993 Master of Advanced Study (Part III Tripos in Math), University of Cambridge, U.K.
  
• 1991 M.Sc., University of Oulu, Finland
  
• 1988 High School, Laudatur (36/36)

Previous professional appointments and major grants

• 2017 Academy Professor of Academy of Finland
  
• 2015 ETH Zürich, invited guest professor (3.5 months)
  
• 2013 ERC Advanced Grant
  
• 2005 EURYI award (EUROHORCs/ESF)
  
• 2001 - 2007 University of Jyväskylä, Finland, professor
  
• 2000 - 2001 Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Academy Fellow
  
• 1997 - 1999 University of Innsbruck, Austria, EU Marie Curie fellow (P. Zoller)
  
• 1996 - 1997 University of Ulm, Germany, postdoc (W.P. Schleich)
  
• < 1996 University of Helsinki, University of Oulu, Finland, researcher
  

Career breaks

• Maternity leaves: 3 months 2002 and 5 months 2006
  

Leadership and major positions of trust

• Director of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Computational Nanoscience (COMP) 2013 - 2017
  
• Chair of the Millenium Techology Prize International Selection Committee 2017-
  
• Member of the Research and Innovation Council of Finland, chaired by the Prime Minister 2007 - 2011, 2011 - 2015
  
• Academy of Finland, Vice chair of the board 2010 - 2012, 2013 - 2014
  
• Director of the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyväskylä 2002 - 2005

Other positions of trust (selected examples)

• Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) Award committee member 2013
  
• Advisory Board of Villum Centre of Excellence QUSCOPE, University of Århus (director Prof. Klaus Molmer)
  
• Member of the board of the FinNano Nanotechnology research programme of TEKES, Finland, 2005 - 2010
  
• Member of the board of the European Group on Atomic Systems (EGAS) of the European Physical Society (EPS) 2013
  
• Management Committee member of the COST actions CA16221 Quantum Technologies with Ultra-Cold Atoms 2017
  
• 2021 and MP1403 Nanoscale Quantum Optics 2014 - 2018
  
• Editorial Advisory Board member in ACS Photonics 2018 - 2020
  
• Guest editor for the New Journal of Physics Focus Issue on Quantum Transport in Ultracold Atoms
  

Teaching

Developed and lectured six lecture courses (Electronics I, Physics of Optical Communications Networks, Optoelectronics, Quantum Optics, Quantum Physics, Frontiers of Quantum Gas Research (at ETH Zürich))

Invited talks

• 91 invited talks at conferences and 58 invited talks at seminars and colloquia
  
• Selected plenary, keynote and invited talks at conferences in 2020
  
• Nuclear Physics Meets Condensed Matter: Symmetry, Topology, and Gauge, ECT*, Trento, Italy 2020 (keynote talk)
  
• Exploring quantum many-body physics with ultracold atoms and molecules, Bad Honnef, Germany (2020)
  
• Condensates of Light, Leiden, Netherlands 2020
  
• METANANO 2020, Tbilisi, Georgia 2020 (plenary talk)

Organizing conferences (selected examples)

• Chair 2021 and vice chair 2019 of the Scientific Committee of the “Bose-Einstein Condensation Frontiers in Quantum Gases” conference, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
  
• Member of the program committee of 10th International Conference on Spontaneous Coherence in Excitonic Systems
  
• (ICSCE), Melbourne, Australia, 2020