Risto Orava

    Orava is Professor of Experimental High Energy Physics at University of Helsinki. He

    made his PhD at Fermi National Laboratory (Fermilab) in 1981 and made significant

    contributions to several neutrino-nucleon scattering experiments at Fermilab. He led

    the finnish involvement in the DELPHI experiment at CERN's Large Electron Positron

    Collider (LEP) in the 1980's and 1990's. He was the director of the Research Institute

    for High Energy Physics (SEFT), University of Helsinki 1991-96. He has now a leading

    role in the TOTEM experiment at CERN's next large scale project, the Large Hadron

    Collider (LHC), to start operating in 2007. He also leads the finnish participation in the

    CDF experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron collider, the current high-energy frontier.