Personal details and date of CV

• Tolonen, Mikko Sakari (born 5 August, 1976, Finnish)
• ORCID: 0000-0003-2892-8911 | Research website: https://bit.ly/2pzcwda | Personal status: married, 3 children (b. 2001, 2010, 2011)
• date of CV: 1.10.2022

Degrees

• PhD, Department of History, University of Helsinki, Finland. Doctoral thesis: Self-love and Self-liking in the Moral and Political Philosophy of Bernard Mandeville and David Hume, Graded laudatur (2010)
• Title of docent: general history, University of Helsinki (2015)

Current employment

• Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki (2020–)

Previous work experience

• 2017–2020 Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki
• 2015–2017 Professor of Research on Digital Resources, University of Helsinki
• 2012–2015 Post-doctoral researcher, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
• 2012–2013 Leverhulme Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews, UK
• 2010–2012 Post-doctoral researcher, Centre of Excellence in Philosophical Psychology, Morality, and Politics (PMP), University of Helsinki
• 2005–2006 Doctoral researcher, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK

Research funding and grants

• HPC-HD High Performance Computing for the Detection and Analysis of Historical Discourses, Academy of Finland consortium, Total funding app. 1100000€ (2022–2024); role in preparation: consortium PI
• RiCEP Rise of commercial society and eighteenth-century publishing, Academy of Finland consortium, Total funding app. 550000€ (2020–2024); role in preparation: consortium PI
• PreCEM Presence of Classics in Earl Modern Book History, Seed Funding together with KU Leuven and Aalto (2022–2023); role in preparation: consortium PI
• NewsEye Horizon2020 collaborative project with multiple international partners (2018–2022); role in preparation: local PI at UH
• DESIR Humanities at Scale: Evolving the DARIAH-ERIC, Horizon2020 project with 15 partners (development of Dariah in Finland, including national consortium FIRI application); role in preparation: local PI at UH
• COMHIS Computational History and Transformation of Public Discourse in Finland, 1640–1910. Academy of Finland, Digital Humanities Programme Funding, Total funding app. 300000€ (2016–2019); role in preparation: local PI at UH
• DIGITALIA Research Center on Digital Information Management, total funding app. 700000€ (together with National Library of Finland and Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences, 2015–2017); role in preparation: local PI at UH
• HNE18 University of Helsinki funded project: History, Nature and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Europe, 150000€ (2013–2016); role in preparation: PI
• Big Data Approach to History of Political Thought Kone Foundation grant €42000 (this grant was not used due to appointment as professor, 2014); role in preparation: PI

Research output

• Fin-Clariah infrastructure development (role as vice-director, 2020–)
• Helsinki Computational History Group, data science ecosystem development (role as PI, 2017–)

Research supervision and leadership experience

• Main supervisor in MA track on Digital Humanities (2020–), annual intake of students approx. 6-8
• Current supervisor of 7 doctoral students in computational history, general history and digital humanities (3+4 primary/secondary supervision)
• Several funded research projects with leadership of Helsinki Computational History Group since 2014, including supervision of 6 postdocs over the years

Teaching merits

• 2018-2020 Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (KARVI), The evaluation of higher education in the humanities committee, vice-chair (report published in 2020)
• Subject head of Digital Humanities at the department of Digital Humanities, responsible for digital humanities teaching modules and development of MA track, 2020–
• Current annual teaching load includes 3 lecture courses, 2 project courses, hackathon and 2 seminars
• Continuous pedagogic training (2015–)

Awards and honours

• 2020 Best paper award, Nordic and Baltic Digital Humanities Conference, Riga (together with colleagues from digital humanities in Helsinki)
• 2019 Best poster award, DH2019, Utrecht (together with research group), >1000 participants
• 2019 Best paper award, Nordic Digital Humanities Conference, Copenhagen (together with research group)
• 2018 SPARC Open Data Champion
• 2016 Open Science and Research Award, awarded by Finnish Ministry of Education

Other key academic merits

• Co-Editor of David Hume’s History of England for Oxford University Press (2020–2030)
• Member of research committee for Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki (2021–)
• Chair of research committee HSSH institute, University of Helsinki (2020–)
• Open Science Ambassador for University of Helsinki, LERU (2020–)
• Fin-Clariah vice-director (2020–)
• CSC academic panel, SSH representative (2018–)
• FinElib strategy group member (2015–)
• Advisor for Clarin-ERIC (2019–)
• Chair DHNB Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (2019–2022)
• Dariah-EU BiblioData Working Group, core member (2018–)
• Executive board member of the National Library of Finland (2018–2022)
• Executive committee member of European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) (2018–2021)
• Panelist, Jufo publication forum (2018–2021)
• MILDRED, University of Helsinki Research Data Infrastructure Steering Group, Chair (2016–2018)
• DIGITALIA, Research Centre on Digital Information Management, Steering Group (2015–2017)
• Infrastructure committee for University of Helsinki central campus (2015–2019)
• Board member Eighteenth-Century Studies Society in Finland (2019–2022)
• HELDIG, Helsinki Digital Humanities Centre Steering Group for its establishment, member (2015–2016)

Scientific and societal impact

• Expert panels: Several scientific evaluations in various countries in Europe, including UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Poland, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Australia as well as EU funding calls (2015–)
• Referee for scientific and scholarly journals: on average 3-4 articles per annum, journals include: Mind, History of European Ideas, European Journal of Political Theory, Utilitas, Hume Studies, etc.
• Conference presentations: >10 keynote presentations in Nordic countries, Europe, USA and Australia along with numerous regular conference papers (2015–)
• Conference chair >10 international conferences (2014–) Including: “Digital Humanities in Nordic Countries, 3rd annual conference” (2018), >300 participants; “Does Intellectual History Need Digital Humanities” (2018); “Philosophy and History of Open Science” (2016); “Digital History in Finland” (2015); “Conceptual Change: Digital Humanities Case Studies” (2015); “Big Data in History” (2014); “Fable of the bees after 300 years” (2014)