CV
CURRICULUM VITAE for
Matti Pastell, born 15th of April 1981.
ADDRESS
PO. Box 28, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
tel. +358-9-191 58681, mobile +358 50 4150612, fax +358 9 191 58491
e-mail: matti.pastell@helsinki.fi
CURRENT POSITION
University lecturer, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki. Since August 2008
DOCENTSHIPS
Docent of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, University of Helsinki 2009
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
- Post Doctoral Researcher, Dep of Agrotechnology. University of Helsinki. January - July 2008
- Researcher, Dep. Of Agtechnology. University of Helsinki June 2004 - December 2007
- Guest scientist, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) January - March 2007
- Trainee, Dep. Of Agtechnology. University of Helsinki January - April 2004
EDUCATION
- Master of Science. Agricultural engineering. University of Helsinki 2005
- Dr. of Agriculture and Forestry. University of Helsinki 2007 Dissertation: "Automatic Lameness Detection in a Milking Robot: Instrumentation, measurement software, algorithms for data analysis and a neural network model"
RECEIVED PROJECT FUNDING
Project leader: SOWMONITOR - Automatic monitoring of farrowing, 2011 - 2013. 190 000 euro. Funded by Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
Subproject coordinator: SORJAT - Early Detection and Prevention of Lameness in Dairy Cattle, 2009 - 2012. Share of the project funding 150 000 euro. Funded by Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
Subproject coordinator: REMOWELL - New welfare technologies in monitoring health and welfare of production animals, 2010-2013. Share of the project funding 90 000 euro. Funded by Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
GROUP MEMBER IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
Respiratory infections in Swine - 2010 - 2013.
Turkey welfare during transportation - 2008. Funded by Ministry of Agriculture.
ECOSTALL -Emissions from uninsulated cold dairy buildings. 2005-2007. EU - project.
Interrobo. Animal welfare measurement methods. 2005. EU Interreg-project.
Kartek-Tekno. Automatic monitoring of animal health and welfare. 2005-2007. Funded by Ministry of Agriculture.
Sika-Tekno.Technology to supervise the farrowing of pigs . 2005-2007. Funded by Ministry of Agriculture.
SUPERVISED PROJECTS
Currently supervising three PhD students:
Petro Tamminen, Department of Agrotechnology
Johanna Häggman, Department of Animal Science
Ann-Helena Hokkanen, Department of Production Animal Medicine
5 Masters thesis in Agrotechnology and Animal Science (2006–2010)
1 Masters thesis in Signal processing, Technical University of Helsinki (2006)
MOST IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL VISITS
Invited teacher in PhD level course "Biosystems Instrumentation" in the University of Copenhagen. 20 - 30.10.2009.
Guest scientist for 3 months in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). 1.1.-31.3.2007
Several research visits to Estonian University of Life Sciences. In total of 4 weeks during 2005-2007.
Lameness workshop in Ghent, Belgium. 3-5.12.2007
ASABE annual meeting in Portland, USA and research visits to: Washington state university, Iowa state university and University of Minnesota. 9-23.7.2006
OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
Expert tasks
Reviewer for International Journals: Journal of Dairy Science, Biosystems Engineering, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Journal of Equine Veterinary Science.
Evaluator for the European Commission in Seventh Framework Programme, Call KBBE-2010.
Reviewer for "Precision Livestock Farming'09" Conference.
Reviewer for funding applications of "Industrial Research Fund K.U Leuven" 2009.
Vice member in board of the "Foundation of Agricultural Machinery Research" (Maatalouskoneiden tutkimussäätiö) 2007 -
Member of the ISO/TC23/SC19/WG3 "animal identification" working group. 2006 -
Invited talks
- Keynote speech "Application of Precision Livestock Farming to promote animal welfare". 22nd Nordic Symposium of the International Society for Applied Ethology 20-22 January 2010. Kuopio, Finland.
- Invited lecture "Technical Prospects for Automated Behavioral Monitoring" in Workshop: "Welfare monitoring using automatic measurement of behaviour", ISAE conference 4-7 August 2010. Uppsala, Sweden.
Scientific positions of trusts and administration
Member of the Finnish milking machine committee (Lypsykonetoimikunta). 2007-
Member of the Board of Department of Agrotechnology 1.1.2008-
Member of the Board of the Finnish Society of Applied Ethology 1.1.2008-
President of the Technical Committee of The Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland 1.6.2008-
Member of the Board of the Experimental Farm of University of Helsinki. 1.1.2007-
TEACHING
In charge of M.Sc course "Measurement Technology", 7 ects. (2010, 2011)
In charge of M.Sc course "Automation in agricultural machinery", 15 ects. (2006, 2008)
Course "Livestock production technology", 10 ects. (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010)
Lectures in courses "Research practises in agrotechnology", "Introduction to animal production", and "Modelling, numerical solution and simulation of biosystems".