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Mika Sirén is a Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and has more than 25 years of experience in implementing and managing public, private and jointly funded EU and national R&D projects in welding and manufacturing, advanced materials and solid state joining. His scientific interests include welding technologies, high strength stainless and structural steel welding metallurgy and more recently welding simulation.
In 1990 - 1991 he worked at VTT as a research trainee on vacuum brazing and diffusion bonding of ceramics to metals and also prepared his M.Sc. thesis on the subject. From 1991 to 2009 he worked at VTT as a Research Scientist (regular staff since 1995), and since 2009 as a Senior Research Scientist. He has been acting as a project manager on several public, private and joint funded national and EU R&D projects. In 1998 - 1999 he was a visiting research scientist and an EU Marie Curie fellow in GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH in Germany for twelve months in the field of solid state joining of intermetallic compounds. He spent a total of nine months as a visiting researcher in the Korean top technical university KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Dept. of Mechanical Engineering in 2014 to 2016.
He holds an M.Sc. in materials science from Tampere University of Technology, an IIW International Welding Engineer qualification (IWE), an International Project Management Association Project Manager certification (IPMA Level C) and modules 1, 4 and 5 of the International Mechanised, Orbital and Robot Welding qualification (IMORWP). He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications at VTT on welding technologies, welded lightweight structural applications, as well as advanced and dissimilar materials joining. Mika Sirén is active in various functions in Welding Society of Finland (WSF) since 2002, including the chairmanship of the international qualification training Governing Board since 2016, and participates in the International Institute of Welding (IIW) activities as an expert since 2004, and later on as the national delegate in three committees.
Education/Academic qualification
Business and administration, Other
2011
Award Date: 12 Oct 2011
Manufacturing and processing, Other
6 Oct 2008 → 27 Mar 2009
Award Date: 16 Apr 2009
External positions
Visiting researcher, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Sep 2014 → Nov 2016Gastwissenschaftler
1 Sep 1998 → 31 Aug 1999Fingerprint
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Projects
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FIDIPRO NA: Digital materials engineering and modelling of mass and heat flow for optimisation of joining of materials
Siren, M., Kujanpää, V., Niemi, T., Karhu, M., Kjäldman, L., Martikainen, H. & Na, S.
1/01/14 → 31/12/16
Project: Business Finland project
Research output
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ÄVE - Älykäs Valmistus Ekosysteemissä. Tulosraportti 2019
Heininen, A. (ed.), Siren, M. (ed.), Hillman, L. (ed.) & Koskinen, K. (ed.), 23 Apr 2020, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. 33 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report
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30 vuotta kansainvälistä pätevöityskoulutusta Suomessa
Siren, M. & Kauppila, J., 20 Apr 2019, In: Hitsaustekniikka. 71, 2, p. 25-28Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional
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Quo vadis, hitsauskoulutus?
Siren, M. & Kauppila, J., 14 Sep 2018, In: Hitsaustekniikka. 70, 4, p. 2-3 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional
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3D-tulostus ja lämpökäsittely - prosessiparametrit, muodostuvat mikrorakenteet ja lämpökäsittelyt
Sirén, M., 2017. 29 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Other conference contribution › Professional
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Digital materials engineering and modelling of mass and heat flow for optimisation of joining of materials (FIDIPRO NA): Final report
Siren, M., Niemi, T., Suck-joo, N., Martikainen, H. & Kujanpää, V., 2016, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. 69 p. (VTT Research Report, Vol. VTT-R-04407-16).Research output: Book/Report › Report
Activities
- 3 Conference presentation
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30th Anniversary of International Welding Qualification in Finland in 2019
Mika Siren (Speaker)
25 Apr 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
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Pätevöityskoulutuskomitea
Mika Siren (Speaker)
24 Apr 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
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Säde-, hybridi- ja kitkahitsauksen laatukysymykset
Mika Siren (Speaker)
31 Oct 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
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