Affiliation

• A researcher at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB)

Scientific interests

• Physics: high energy physics, particle and radiation physics, neutrino physics, physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics
• Scientific computing: distributed computing and data analyses, Grid technology, Monte Carlo methods in particle physics, distributed Monte Carlo computing on the Grid
• Past activities: quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics, computational material science, ion conductors

Research projects

• Beyond Standard Model physics and data analyses at the CMS experiment at CERN
• Monte Carlo simulations in radiation and particle physics on the Grid

Other activities

• A member of the BalticGrid project
• A member of the technical board of the Estonian Grid
• A member of the coordination group of the Estonian Fusion Programme
• The Estonian coordinator of the Nordic Grid Neighbourhood project
• The arrangement of the annual schools in physics in Estonia
• Other: Physics Bus, Scientific Week and Physics Year 2005 at the national TV, Estonian Academy of Young Scientists etc.