Personal information

Born on 11th January, 1971. Estonian.

Educational history

• 1997-2001 - Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Technical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy in Natural Sciences (2001).
• 1991-1997 - Tallinn Technical University Technical Physics, Master of Science in Natural Sciences (1997).
• 1995 - University of Jyväskyla, Finland, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 5th International Summer School, Applied Mathematics: courses on Wavelet Theory.

Academic Degrees

• 2001 - Ph.D. in Natural Sciences (Thesis: Multi-soliton interactions and the inverse problem of wave crests)
• 1997 - M.Sc. in Natural Sciences (Thesis: Travelling waves in nonconservative media with dispersion)

Distinctions

• 2003 - Institute of Cybernetics, Scientist Publication Award.
• 2001 - Institute of Cybernetics, Young Scientist Publication Award.
• 2000 - Estonian Science Foundation, Young Scientists Award.
• 1997 - Estonian Academy of Sciences, Student Award.

Academic Appointments

• 2008-onward - Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Systems Biology, Institute of Cybernetics (IoC) at TTU.
• 2007-2008 - Scientific Researcher, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway.
• 2003-2007 - Senior Researcher, Institute of Cybernetics (IoC) at TTU.
• 2001-2002 - Postdoc, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
• 1997-2003 - Researcher, Institute of Cybernetics (IoC) at TTU.
• 1992-1997 - Engineer, Institute of Cybernetics at TTU.

Visiting Appointments

• 2003, 2006 - Software developer, Enthought Inc., USA.
• 2000,1999,1998 - University of Twente.
• 1996-1997 - Research Fellowship, University of Twente.
• 1995 - Assistant, Tallinn Pedagogical University (TPedI).
• 1994 - Research assistant, Maritime Research Area of the VTT Manufacturing Technology, Finland.

Experience

• 2003-2006 - Software consultant/developer, Enthought Inc., USA.
• 1998-onwards - System Administrator, Institute of Cybernetics (IoC) at TTU.

Teaching

• 2012 - Python (IoC), graduate.
• 2011 - Linux (IoC), graduate
• 2008-2009 - Confocal Microscopy, graduate.
• 2006-2007 - Water Waves, graduate.
• 2006-2007 - Seminars and Special Seminars for BSc, MSc, and PhD students.
• 2005 - Python (IoC), graduate.
• 1999-2001, 2006-2007 - Statistical Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes (IoC), graduate.
• 1999-2001 - Linux (IoC), graduate.
• 1998 - Dynamics (TTU), undergraduate.
• 2001,2000,1997 - Solitons (IoC), graduate.
• 1995 - Numerical Methods (TPedI), undergraduate.

Supervised theses

• 2012 - Maris Poroson, Formation and analysis of widefield fluorescence microscopy images. BSc thesis. TUT. In Estonian: Laiaväljalise fluorestsentsmikroskoopia piltide formeerumine ja analüüs.
• 2011 - Päivo Simson, Free surface problem with variable bottom and its solution using conformal mapping technique. MSc thesis. TUT. In Estonian: Muutuva põhjaga vabapinna ülesanne hüdromehaanikas ja selle lahendamine konformse kujutamise meetodil.
• 2010 - Ürgo Saaliste, Validation of confocal microscope through noise measurements of homogeneous field. BSc thesis. TUT. In Estonian: Konfokaalmikroskoobi valideerimine müra mõõtmistega ühtlasel väljal.
• 2009 - Martin Laasmaa, The Analysis of Richardson-Lucy Deconvolution Algorithm with Application to Microscope Images. MSc thesis, TUT.
• 2006 - Liis Rebane, Applications of the orbital angular momentum of light for imaging. MSc thesis. TUT.
• 2006 - Mervi Sepp, Propagation characteristics of nonstationary coherent optical waves in a startified medium with Kerr nonlinearity. MSc thesis. TUT.
• 2006 - Päivo Simson, Solving nonstationary freesurface problem with conformal mapping technique. BSc thesis. TUT.
• 2004 - Liis Rebane, Propagation characteristics of coherent optical waves in a stratified medium with Kerr nonlinearity. BSc thesis. TUT.

Research Projects

• 2008-onwards - Systems Biology. Confocal and Fluorescence Microscopy. Deconvolution algorithms. Mechanoenergetics of heart cells.
• 2004-2008 - Extreme Waves. Semi-analytical semi-numerical solvers.
• 2002-2008 - Extreme Waves. Benjamin-Feir instability.
• 1998-2008 - Hydrodynamics (shallow water waves, interaction patterns).
• 1997-onwards - Soliton theory. Numerical methods.
• 1996-1997 - Studies of analytical solutions of Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation.
• 1994-1996 - Studies of soliton formation from a harmonic input in the Korteweg-de Vries system with energy influx.
• 1994 - Dynamic vibrations analyses by finite element method.
• 1992-1993 - Constructing a model for ground-water flow.

Development Projects

• 2009-onwards - IOCBio: open-source software from the Laboratory of Systems Biology. Author.
• 2009-onwards - PyLibNIDAQmx: a Python wrapper to libnidaqmx library. Author.
• 2009-onwards - PyLibTiff: a Python TIFF library. Author.
• 2006-onwards - Sympycore: Symbolic manipulation package for Python. Author.
• 2006-onwards - The Third Generation of F2PY. Author.
• 2002-onwards - SciPy: Scientific tools for Python. Co-founder, developer, and consultant.
• 1999-onwards - Software f2py for interfacing high-performance libraries (written in Fortran, C) with Python programming language. Author, maintainer, and consultant.

Supportive grants

• 2008-onwards - Wellcome Trust.
• 2004-2007, 2007-2008 - ETF grant. Extreme waves: analysis of free surface models.
• 2001 - LabMath grant for attending the Symposium on Mathematical Support for Hydrodynamic Laboratories, ITB, Indonesia.
• 2001 - EU grant for attending the Newton Institute EuroConference Surface Water Waves, Cambridge, UK,
• 2000 - IUTAM grant for participation in ICTAM 2000 Conference, Chicago, USA.
• 2000 - PhD student support.
• 1999 - Estonian Science Foundation (ESF) young researchers grant.
• 1999 - PhD student support.
• 1997 - University of Twente grant for research (3 months).
• 1996 - University of Twente grant for research (2 months).
• 1994 - Nordic Council of Ministers (CIMO) grant for work at Finnish Technical Research Centre, Espoo (2 months).

Other information

• Homepage: http://cens.ioc.ee/~pearu/
• E-Mail: pearu.peterson@gmail.com
• Publications: see link on homepage.
• Technology - Unix/Linux, Python, C/C++, Fortran, Emacs, LaTeX, CVS, Postscript, Metapost, CAD, Maple, Matlab, etc. Object-oriented design, generic programming. Interlanguage programming. Software for scientific computations. CVS, SVN. Linux clusters (X terminals, Mosix, SGE). Active in open-source community.