Timegate Instruments Ltd

Mari is one of the founders and the CEO of the company. She has over 20 years of experience in industrial process instrumentation applications in her previous jobs. At VTT she worked as a team leader and senior scientist. Mari has excellent organizational skills with good sense of business. In Timegate, Mari wants to create inspiring workplace with strong company culture and ambitious goals. In addition to CEO’s duties, her responsibility is to find new applications, new markets and new potential customers for the Timegate’s products and technology. She is the ´mother´ of office dog Tapsu.

Lauri is a main tech & science guy and one of the founders. He has M.Sc. in theoretical physics and more than a decade of experience in the applied variety. You most probably find him in the lab, working on the hardware, software and esoteric math to make it all function together. He loves not only inelastic scattering but also photoluminescence and good humour.

Jyrki is also one of the founders of the company and his role is to manage product portfolio and production. He has a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. Jyrki is an excellent opto-mechanics designer and he is also our key resource in pilot experiments as he knows well the industrial environment and requirements. His lively and energetic spirit is like tornado in the lab and he speeds up our progress on all fronts.

Miia has an MBA in International Business Management and M.Sc. in Geography (Regional Development and Politics). Miia has experience in mining industry, marketing and international business. She has a key role in business development to mining customer segment. Furthermore, Miia is open-minded and brisk marketing professional and quick-witted communications specialist. She is the team’s cheerleader.

Amutha has a doctoral degree in Biophotonics with 10 years of experience in application of Raman spectroscopy for cancer/precancer detection and Raman imaging of cells and tissues. She was also a recipient for Marie Sklodowska Curie IF fellowship and has done extensive work in cancer diagnosis using continuous wave Raman spectroscopy and SERS. Furthermore, she has explored the possibility of discriminating negative cytology from different grades of dysplasia of oral exfoliated cells using time-gated Raman spectroscopy. Now she is focusing on the applicability of timegated Raman technology in mining, pharmaceutical and food industries. Cooking spicy Indian food is her relaxation.

Bryan is a young and energetic chemist with a degree in M.Sc. (chemistry) and experience and background in analytical chemistry. He has work experience in fields of pharmaceuticals, mining industries and R&D projects. Bryan is focused on studying Timegated Raman spectroscopy applications and development of data processing algorithms and routines. Bryan is our mysterious ‘TGI man’ as seen in our completely serious TGI videos.

Risto has a M.Sc in Electronics and more than 15 years of design experience of various types of electronic gadgets including optoelectronic devices, high-speed electronics and even consumer products. Over the past five years, Risto has focused more on optoelectronic system design, single-photon counting technology, optics and optomechanics. Risto likes to act as a glue between the customer, R&D team and marketing.

Petteri is our creative and productive R&D specialist with M.Sc. in Electronics. His core competences include electronics design in analog and digital domain, optoelectronics design and system design engineering. He has a lot of experience in designing various kinds of optical measurement devices in close collaboration with mechanics, optics and software designers. Petteri is hard working electronics designer who does not give-up until the system is working. Petteri is office dog Tapsu’s best friend.

Vineeth is the youngest member of the team. He studied theoretical physics and graduated as a master of Photonics from the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. He has previously spent some time at ETH Zürich levitating nanoparticles with lasers. If he is not working with the photons collected by the SPAD detector he likes to hike and collect incoherent photons on CMOS sensors.

Juho has a M.Sc in Software Engineering and 13 years of versatile design and development experience. He started his career developing server backend systems, then moving on to develop embedded & desktop software for optical measurement devices. The last few years he has been developing IoT systems focusing more on the embedded side. At Timegate he can put his whole skill set in use in heading the software development activities that span from the device firmware to the cloud. He enjoys twiddling with retro computers and has a working Commodore 64 in his office as well.