Ilari Maasilta
Professor at University of Jyväskylä
Finland
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Top SchoolIlari Maasilta is a Professor of experimental condensed matter physics at the University of Jyväskylä with over two decades of research experience and a decade of senior academic leadership. He specializes in low-temperature thermal properties of nanostructures, using NIS tunnel junctions and TES technologies to push detector sensitivity to millikelvin regimes for space and materials-science applications. His work spans electron-phonon interactions in low-dimensional systems, quantum-limited lattice conduction, phononic crystals, and superconducting cooler development, and he routinely measures temperature fluctuations at the nanoscale. Trained with a Ph.D. from Stony Brook, he combines deep cryogenics and nanofabrication expertise with practical device engineering, bridging fundamental physics and high-impact instrumentation. An interesting throughline of his career is translating quantum-limited thermal physics into real-world detectors used in X-ray and sub-mm spectroscopy.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Physics, MSc, Physics at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanSunilan ala-astePh.D, experimental condensed matter physics, Ph.D, experimental condensed matter physics at Stony Brook UniversityM.Sc., Physics, M.Sc., Physics at Helsinki University of TechnologyVehkalahden lukio
Github Skills (25)
computational-biology8
imputation8
clinical-trials7
svd7
pipeline6
electrophysiology6
neuroimaging5
apache-pig5
python5
emr5
apache-spark5
genome5
assembly4
spark4
genome-assembly4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NGSeq/ViraPipe
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
ViraPipe is a Apache Spark based scalable pipeline for metagenome analysis from NGS read data
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 29 pushes in 4 months
scalablemetagenomepipelineemrapache
NGSeq/PanGenSpark
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Scalable reference genome assembly from compressed pan-genome index with Spark
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
scalablegenomereference-genomeindexgenome-assembly
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