Ahti Salo
Systeemianalyysin professori
| Email: | ahti.salo@maxatlutwoy.gfnit |
| Phone: | +358-50-383 0636 |
| Room: | Y217 |
| Reception: | wed 15-16 |
| Visiting address: | Otakaari 1, Espoo Finland |
| Postal address: | Aalto University School of Science, Systems Analysis Laboratory, P.O.Box 11100, 00076 Aalto, Finland |
Professor Salo has extensively worked on developing decision-analytic methods and their applications in resource allocation, innovation management, risk management, technology foresight, and efficiency analysis. He has published widely in leading international journals, including Management Science and Operations Research, and serves on the editorial boards of several refereed journals. Professor Salo has led numerous basic and applied research projects funded by major industrial firms, industrial federations, and funding agencies. At Aalto University (and previously at Helsinki University of Technology before 2010), he has supervised 30 doctoral dissertations (see CV), 227 master's theses, and 85 bachelor's theses. He has been a visiting professor at the London Business School, Université Paris-Dauphine, and the University of Vienna.
In 2019, he received the MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award, the highest distinction of the International Society for Multiple Criteria Decision Making. The Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) has awarded him the 2013 Best Publication Award for the book on Portfolio Decision Analysis and the 2022 Frank P. Ramsay Medal for distinguished contributions to decision analysis.
He has served as President of the Finnish Operations Research Society (FORS) for two biennial terms and has been its Honorary President since September 2023. In 2010-11, he was the European and Middle East representative on the International Activities Committee. From 2010 to 2016, he served on the jury for the EDDA Doctoral Dissertation Award of the European Operational Research Societies (EURO) and chaired it in 2016. He was a member of the Board of the Association of Parliament Members and Researchers (Tutkas) from 1999 to 2019. In spring 2020, he was a member of the Science Panel appointed by the Prime Minister's Office to provide scientific support for managing the COVID-19 pandemic. From 2023 to 2027, he is serving a third consecutive four-year term on the Government Foresight Group, appointed by the Prime Minister’s Office of Finland. He is currently on the Science Advice and Review Board of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
