Juha Huiskonen
Chief Executive Officer at University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolJuha Huiskonen is a structural biologist and institute director with nine years of formal experience as a leader in academia and industry, currently serving as CEO of Nanometria while holding professorship and directorship roles at the University of Helsinki. He specializes in cryo-electron microscopy, tomography and computational image processing to tackle flexible membrane and viral complexes, bridging deep computational method development with hands-on structural experimentation. His career includes group leadership at Oxford and advisory work translating cryo-EM into drug discovery, reflecting a rare blend of basic research, technology translation and entrepreneurial drive. Trained in genetics, virology, bioinformatics and mathematics (PhD, University of Helsinki), he is known for taking on technically challenging, method-oriented problems that enable new biological insights rather than incremental advances.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Genetics, Virology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Ph.D., Genetics, Virology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Mathematics at University of HelsinkiGlobal Leader, Global Leader at Aalto University Executive Education and Professional Development
English, Finnish
Github Skills (24)
regularization10
localized10
image-processing9
structural-biology9
ctf9
graphics-programming9
microscopy9
nvidia9
cuda8
reproducible-science7
hpc7
3d-models7
python6
electron5
typescript4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OPIC-Oxford/localrec
Jul 2016 - Oct 2020
Localized reconstruction of flexible subunits from cryo-EM images
Contributions:2 releases, 129 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 4 months
reconstructionlocalizedcryo-emflexible
OPIC-Oxford/pyrelion-scripts
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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