Matti Pastell
Research Professor at Research Centre for Animal Welfare
Finland
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Top SchoolMatti Pastell is a Research Professor at the Natural Resources Institute Finland with over 16 years of experience in Precision Livestock Farming, agricultural automation, and dynamic biological systems modeling. He has led research teams and managed programs translating sensor data and control algorithms into practical animal welfare monitoring systems since 2005, and has recently expanded his work into fish welfare in RAS and precision plant production including vertical farming and robotics. Matti combines deep academic credentials (PhD and docent in agricultural and environmental engineering) with hands-on software development—contributing to Julia-based literate programming tools for scientific reporting—bridging measurement science, computation and deployable solutions. Known for turning complex biological signals into actionable monitoring and predictive systems, he brings a rare mix of instrumentation expertise, ecological understanding and open-source engineering to future farming challenges.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. of Agriculture and Forestry, Precision livestock farming, measuring animal health and welfare, Dr. of Agriculture and Forestry, Precision livestock farming, measuring animal health and welfare at University of Helsinki
English, Swedish, German, Finnish
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Github Skills (20)
literate-programming10
julia10
package-development9
r9
matplotlib9
markdown9
python9
plot9
pdf9
latex9
markdown-it9
gadfly8
jupyter-notebook7
moving-average6
emacs6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
JunoLab/Weave.jl
Nov 2014 - Mar 2019
Scientific reports/literate programming for Julia
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 561 commits, 68 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matti primarily contributed to the development of the JuliaReport.jl package, focusing on its core functionality for literate programming and scientific report generation. Their contributions involved implementing the noweb reader, improving the markdown and latex output, and adding features such as support for different figure formats (e.g., PNG, SVG, PDF), including those generated from Plots.jl and Gadfly. The user also improved the general structure of the code.
literate-programmingreportsscientific-workflowsjulia-languagejulia
mpastell/CowLog
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 56 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
behaviorspythonrecordingvideoffmpeg
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