Olli Tarvainen

Olli Tarvainen was born in Joensuu, Finland, in 1979. He received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, in 2005. He then joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA, as a Post-Doctoral Researcher before returning to the University of Jyväskylä, in 2009, where he was a University Researcher and a Lecturer. He joined the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, in 2018. He is currently the Leader of the Low Energy Beam Physics Section. His research interests include plasma physics and diagnostics of positive and negative ion sources and applications of ion sources and low-temperature plasmas.