Kaj Juslin was born in 1944, in southern Finland. He studied Electrical Power Engineering at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) for his master’s degree. His postgraduate interests concerned Control Theory and Electrical Engineering Theory. His Master’s thesis was written in the Swedish language and his Doctoral Thesis in English. He also speaks Finnish fluently. His military rank is lieutenant.
He is presently Customer Manager and Chief Research Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He is responsible for the strategic co-ordination of modelling and simulation related research projects at VTT. He has previously been in many different positions at VTT, already since 1970. Among other of his professional activities he has been part time lecturer in Electric Power Applications as well as in Simulation of Continuous Systems at HUT. He has also been part time lecturer in Control Engineering at the Helsinki College of Technology. In the field of simulation he has recently been manager of the Sim-Serv project for establishing of a European virtual institute in the context of the GROWTH research programme of the European Union (EU). He has also acted as manager of the CHEDYN project focusing on the dynamics of chemical processes within the EUREKA framework of EU. He was previously responsible for the automation system design and simulation of the SECURE power plant concept at the premises of present Westinghouse Atom in Västerås. He has also taken part in several projects at the premises of Nokia Electronics and Fortum in Helsinki. He has participated in the deliveries of several full-scope Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) training simulators, including the simulators for the Loviisa NPP in Finland, the Paks NPP in Hungary, and the Chasma NPP in Pakistan. In addition, he has taken several shorter IAEA expert missions as a UN employee. He was invited as visiting lecturer to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 and to Chinghua University in Beijing in 1998 and 1991. At VTT he has been the main architect of the Advanced Process Simulation (APROS) software, now in extensive use world wide. His main innovations in this context are related to the Versatile Companion Model (VCM) approach successfully implemented for multi-domain simulation in APROS.
He is Member of the Technical Committee on Mathematical Modelling, International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS). He has been Finnish representative in the IAEA advisory group on Advanced Control Systems to improve Nuclear Power Plants Reliability and Efficiency, 1995 - 1997. He was Member of the ESPRIT Basic Research Working Group, Simulation in Europe (SiE), 1993 - 1997, and Member of the OECD/NEA Working Party on Advanced Computing (WPAC), 1992 - 1996. He was Finnish representative in the IAEA co-ordinated research program on Operator Support Systems in Nuclear Power Plants, 1992 -1995 as well as in the research program on Common Modelling Approaches for Training Simulators for Nuclear Power Plants, 1985-1988.
He is Member of the Boards of the Nordic Process Control Working Group (NPC) and the Finnish Simulation Forum (FINSIM). He has been President of the Federation of European Simulation Societies (EUROSIM) 1996 - 1998, Member of the board of the Nordic Training Simulator User Society (NTS), 1993 - 1997, Associate Vice-President of the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS), 1991 - 1993, Member of the board, the Federation of European Simulation Societies (EUROSIM), 1989 - 1996, Member of the board at Large, the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS), 1989 - 1990, and Chairman of the Scandinavian Simulation Society (SIMS), 1985 - 1988. He has been recorded for his research in Multidisciplinary System Simulation by the Technical Committee on Computer Aided Control System Design (CACSD) of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS).
He is Member of the Editorial Board of Mathematical & Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems (MCMDS) of Taylor & Francis, Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Advances in Simulation published by Springer-Verlag, and Member of the Editorial Board of Mathematical Modelling of Systems published by Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers. He has also been Member of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor of Simulation Practice and Theory of Elsevier. He has contributed himself to more than hundred scientific publications. He has chaired and been member of the programme committee of several high-level international conferences. Also herewith, he has actively contributed to the development and dissemination of novel modelling and simulation methods and related software tools. He emphasises that modelling and simulation in future will be used much more extensively than today as an engineering working method. Modelling and simulation has its mission during the whole lifecycle of industrial plants, hence improving the efficiency and reliability of the processes as well as the quality and yield of the products. Evolving standards both for semantic plant specifications and control system’s interoperability provide for the real take up of modelling simulation for full-fledged support of engineering, operational and business processes throughout the value chains, he says.
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