The Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics is pleased to announce that Professor Erkki Somersalo has been appointed to the prestigious John Reynolds Harkness Professorship.

Dr. Somersalo is an internationally recognized applied mathematician, whose research interests include inverse problems with an emphasis on Bayesian computational methods with physics-based modeling and uncertainty quantification. The applications that inspire Dr. Somersalo’s research range from engineering and biomedical applications to basic questions in the life
sciences. He has coauthored six monographs and textbooks, and over 150 articles. Dr. Somersalo is an elected member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, and a Guggenheim Fellow.