
Visiting researcher at Helsinki Institute of Information Technology (HIIT)
Finland

Visiting researcher at Helsinki Institute of Information Technology (HIIT)
Finland
Five years of experience in the telecommunication industry. Eight years of experience in international organizations (Erasmus Student Network, Tsemppi and Maailma Tutuksi). My professional goal is to contribute to the development of a human-centric European Ubiquitous Network Society through high-quality research conducted in the public or private sector as consultant or project leader.
My current research is focusing on building a conceptual framework for design of mobile social software applications (MoSoSo) supporting social capital.
My expertise is in predicting societal trends, observing and investigating utilization of ICT in society through three dimensions of user experience: local/global, real/virtual, individual/collective.
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
Hosted at HIIT as visiting researcher for the period February - June 2009. Working on revision of doctoral thesis related to "digital community design"
(Public Company; Myself Only; Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — Present (3 years 9 months)
(Telecommunications industry)
2005 — Present (4 years)
(Telecommunications industry)
1999 — Present (10 years)
(Public Company; TLSN; Telecommunications industry)
September 2004 — December 2008 (4 years 4 months)
Researcher in Sonera Information Society Unit (SISU)
- experiments, analyses and visualisation of "People's Interconnections in Mobile Social Networks"
- utilisation of Information and Communication Technology (with a focus on mobile phones) in everyday life
- Future Technologies
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — December 2006 (1 year)
Author of the book "Comunicazione Mobile. Nuove frontiere tra consumo, collaborazione e controllo di contenuti digitali", Collana "Diritto, Economia e Societá dell'Informazione", ISBN 978-88-7137-745-2, Cierre, 2007.
Sito: www.cosix.it
(Telecommunications industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Cognitive Science 2005 — 2008
Educational Technology 2003 — 2004
Master , Computer Science , 1997 — 2003
Final Mark: 103 / 110
Thesis: "Finnish and Italian Technology in the Global Environment of EU: a Comparison of ICT Strategies in Education"
Physics 1996 — 1997
- Social Networks - Complex Networks - Context Aware Computing - Web-based Computer Supported Collaborative Learning - Knowledge Management - Intercultural Communication
-Advisory Board Member of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) (http://www.esn.org),
- Secretary of Tsemppi (http://www.tsemppi.com),
- Webmaster of Maailma Tutuksi ry, Cultural Association (http://www.maailmatutuksi.fi),
- Representative of foreign students at the Committee of International Affairs of the University of Helsinki for the period 2004-06
- Invited Speech at the orientation course for the international students of the University of Helsinki "Cultural Integration: Finland and the Finns seen from a foreigner perspective" (Sept.2004)
- Invited Speech at the annual meeting of the Finnish teachers of Italian in Päivolä: "The School of the Future: Finnish practices of new technologies in education" (Oct.2002)