Professor Ilya Usoskin is the head of Oulu Cosmic Ray Station and vice-Director of ReSoLVE Centre of Excellence. He is an expert in cosmic ray and heliospheric physics, solar physics and geophysics. He was graduated in 1988 with an MSc in Space Physics from Leningrad Polytechnics, obtained a degree of Cand. Sci. in Astrophysics from A F Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute in St Petersburg, Russia in 1995, and a PhD in Space Science from the University of Oulu in 2000. He worked as a postdoc at INFN (Milano) in 1997-1999, and has been the head of Oulu Cosmic Ray Station since 2000.
Professor Usoskin serves the scientific community as an expert. He is a Vice-President of the IAU (International Astronomical Union) and a member of the C4 (Astroparticle Physics) commission of the IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics). He is a member of Research Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has received several awards, including the Knight's cross, 1st class of the Order of the Lion of Finland (2013), the Julius Bartels medal from the European Geoscience Union (2018), an award from the University of Oulu for outstanding contributions to research (2018) and the ISEE award (Japan, 2020).
