Rate My Professor Mikko Voutilainen

Professor Mikko Voutilainen is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Helsinki and a key researcher at the Helsinki Institute of Physics. He specializes in experimental particle physics, with a focus on jet physics, jet energy corrections, precision QCD measurements, and analyses within the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Voutilainen leads the CMS experiment project at the Helsinki Institute of Physics, serves as Team Leader for CERN from Helsinki, and supervises doctoral students in the Doctoral Programme in Particle Physics and Universe Sciences. He manages projects such as JEC4Prompt, funded by the Academy of Finland from 2025 to 2029.

Voutilainen earned his Doctor of Science in Technology from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) and Diplôme national de docteur in physics from Université Paris XI in 2015, with a thesis on the inclusive jet cross section in ppbar collisions at √s=1.96 TeV that received the Universities Research Association 2009 Thesis Prize. He holds a Master of Science in Technology from Helsinki University of Technology (2008). His career includes a CERN Research Fellowship (2011–2014), postdoctoral researcher roles at the University of Helsinki (2013–2015) and Helsinki Institute of Physics (2013–2017), and tenure-track Assistant Professor positions from 2015, leading to his current professorship. He has convened CMS physics groups on Jets and Missing Energy, Jet Energy Corrections, TOP Mass, and Standard Model Physics – Jets. Awards include the CMS Young Researcher Prize (2017), Wu-Ki Tung Award for Early Career Research on QCD (2015), and an ERC Consolidator Grant. Key publications feature lead roles in 'Jet energy scale and resolution in the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 8 TeV' (Journal of Instrumentation, 2017), 'Search for narrow resonances decaying to dijets in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV' (Physical Review Letters, 2016), 'Particle-flow reconstruction and global event description with the CMS detector' (Journal of Instrumentation, 2017), and 'Measurement of the inclusive jet cross-section in ppbar collisions at √s=1.96 TeV' (Physical Review Letters, 2008). Recent contributions include CMS papers on B meson reconstructions (Physical Review Letters, 2026) and jet substructure (Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025). His work has advanced LHC jet reconstruction, contributing to Higgs boson discovery, top quark mass precision, and proton PDF determinations.