tero niemi

researcher

About

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Water and Environmental Engineering reasearch group at Aalto University School of Engineering. Working in EU WaterJPI MUFFIN-project (Multiscale urban flood forecasting) dealing with rainfall and runoff simulation and nowcasting. Experience from urban hydrological simulations, hydrological model development, stochastic rainfall simulations, and precipitation in urban areas. Interested in computational water resources engineering, particularly in hydrological problems related to urban areas and water.

Country

finland

City

helsinki

Industry

research

Skill

modeling, mathematical modeling, hydrology, scientific computing, hydraulics, matlab, c++, water engineering, water resource engineering, stochastic modeling, surface water hydrology, precipitation, rain, civil engineering, python, environmental engineering

Experience

postdoctoral researcher

aalto university

2017-10 - Present · 9 yrs

researcher

finnish meteorological institute

researcher

aalto university

2010-6 - 2011-1 · 8 mos

Researcher in Water Engineering research group in Aalto University School of Science and Engineering. Duties included teaching and improvement of teaching methods as well as participating in field operations in an research project under the subject of ecohydraulics.

research assistant

aalto university

2009-5 - 2010-6 · 1 yr 2 mos

M.Sc. student, thesis subject: "Development of a hydraulic model and its application to a small urban stream."

visiting researcher

bureau of meteorology

2013-10 - 2014-3 · 6 mos

Visitor at the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR) as part of doctoral studies. Utilizing and developing a stochastic simulation model for precipitation fields.

doctoral student

aalto university

2011-11 - 2017-9 · 5 yrs 11 mos

Utilizing and developing a stochastic two-dimensional precipitation simulation model to produce realistic precipitation fields especially for urban areas. The model generates precipitation fields with desired properties that can be further used as input for hydrological models.