January 30, 2008

Curriculum Vitae

Personal details

Name                            Kimmo Tuominen

Born (place and year)  Turku, Finland, 1968

Family relations            Married (wife and two daughters)

Education

Docentship in information science (University of Oulu, 2007 - )

Doctor of Social Sciences (PhD, University of Tampere, 2001)

Licentiate of Social Sciences (University of Tampere, 1997)

Master of Social Sciences (University of Tampere, 1992)

Most important posts and positions held

Library of Parliament

- head of reference and archival services, October 1, 2004 -

Arts Faculty Library, University of Helsinki

- head librarian from March 4, 2002 - September 30, 2004 (on leave from  August 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003)

Department of Communication, University of Helsinki

- professor (August 1, 2003 - December 31, 2003)

CSC, the Finnish IT center for science

- project manager January 1, 2001 - February 23, 2002

- application specialist May 1, 1998 - June 30, 2000

Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi

- researcher July 1, 2000 - December 31, 2000

South Carelia Polytechnic

- information specialist / information services chief August 6, 1997 - April 30,1998

Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere

- teaching associate February 1,1997 - June 31, 1997

- researcher  July 1, 1994 - January 31,1997

Turku University Library

- librarian, team leader May 24, 1993 - June 30, 1994

Previously received research appropriations and grants (last five years)

Member of the Research Group in a project Citizens, Health and the Changing Media Culture, Financed by the Academy of Finland, Media Culture Programme, 1999 – 2002 (six months full time research period as a researcher in Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi (July 1, 2000— December 31, 2000).

Duties as scientific expert

Opponent of Ari Haasio's licentiate thesis, University of Tampere, January 2007

Opponent of Raimo Niemelä's doctoral dissertation, University of Oulu, December 2006

Examiner of Raimo Niemelä's manusrcript for doctoral dissertation, University of Oulu, July 2006

Referee for a paper submitted to The Library Quarterly, May 2006, October 2007

Referee for a paper submitted to Informaatiotutkimus (Information studies), June 2005

Referee for papers submitted to Information Research: an international electronic journal, November 2004; June 2005

Referee for a paper submitted to Information Processing & Management, May 2002

Opponent of Reijo Kumpulainen’s licentiate thesis, February 2003

Member of the Researcher Requirements Working Group of the International Internet Preservation Consortium

Most important positions of trust held

Permanent expert at the Working group of the Ministry of Education, Russiainfo – Finnish portal on Russia, 2003 – 2006

Member of the Board of the Publications Centre of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies 2003 – 2005, 2006 -

Member of the Board of the Undergraduate Library, University of Helsinki 2003 – 2005 (vice member from March 4, 2002)

Member of the Steering Group of Library and Information Science Education, University of Helsinki, 2002 –

Vice Member of the Library Board of the University Helsinki, 2002 – 2003

Member of the Working Group of the Ministry of Education, Digital Information Policy ("Digitaalisen tietohuollon työryhmä"), 2000 – 2003 

Member of the Working Group of the Ministry of Education, Digital Information Resources ("Digitaalisten tietovarantojen koordinaatioryhmä"), 2001 – 2004

Member of The Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists, 2001 –

Member of the Finnish Literature Society, 2002 –

Member of the Finnish Association of Information Studies, 1996-1998, 2002 – 2006, Chairman 2007-