Timo received his M.Sc. degree form Aalto University in 2012, from the School of electrical engineering, with speciality in automation and control engineering. He has been employed at VTT since 2011 working as a research scientist in VTT Wind power technologies group. He has been the Operating Agent of the IEA Wind research task on cold climate wind since 2017. During his time at VTT Timo has been working on numerous R&D projects related especially to wind power technology development. These projects have covered developing signal processing tools for wind turbine performance assessment and automatic ice detection, control system design for blade heating system, embedded system development, and development of GIS tools for icing risk assessment for wind power applications.