Samu Mäntyniemi

Dr Samu Mäntyniemi is a statistician, decision analyst and a population dynamics specialist who received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Finland in 2006. He received adjunct professorship from the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences in 2011 and served as a full professor of multidisciplinary risk analysis in the same faculty from 2012 to 2018. Currently he is a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Institute Finland. He is interested in developing and applying formal methods for automated decision making under uncertainty by utilizing principles of probabilistic reasoning and expected utility theory. He believes that concepts and methods originally developed for sustainable fishery management can be of help in the assessment and sustainable utilization of natural resources within the resource based economy.