Dr. Kati Laakso currently works as a Data Advisor at Aalto University. Her work involves the coordination of research data management and open science activities of the university. As part of her duties, she also coordinates the Data Agent network .
Dr. Laakso finished her Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 2015. Since then, she has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology and the University of Alberta. Before taking her current position at Aalto University, Dr. Laakso worked as a Laboratory Coordinator at the Centre for Earth Observation Sciences of the University of Alberta. She has expertise in optical spectroscopy.