Aku HeinonenAku Heinonen studied geology and mineralogy in the University of Helsinki (UH) and graduated with his MSc in 2007 and PhD in 2012. He was employed as a teaching and research assistant, doctoral researcher, academic affairs officer, and postdoctoral rsearcher at the Department of Geology (later Department of Geosciences and Geography, UH) in 2007-16 and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Seismology (UH) in 2016-17. He worked as a Lecturer in Petrology (UH) in 2017-22 and was appointed as a Docent (adjunct professor, in petrology, UH) and as the director of the BSc Programme in Geosciences and MSc Programme in Geology and Geophysics (UH) in 2020. Heinonen worked as the director of the national FIN-GEO education collaboration network in 2020-2022 and in 2022 he was appointed as the Head of Science and Innovations at the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK). Heinonen participated in the IGCP 510 (A-type Granites and Related Rocks through Time) in 2007-2010 and conducted his doctoral and postdoctoral research on the isotope geochemistry of rapakivi granites and associated massif-type anorthositic rocks from southern Finland, northern Brazil, and southwestern USA in 2007-2016. He is a member and acting secretary of the Finnish National Committee of Geology and the upcoming Finnish National Delegate for the EuroGeoSurvey organization (2023-). Read More Read Less
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