Kaj Riska

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Born
Kaj Antero Riska

January 25., 1953
SpousePirjo Hannele Riska (née Nieminen)
ChildrenMats Nikolas (1985) and Jens Mikael (1989)
Kaj Riska
Riska in 2006, Digital Ship conference, Hamburg
Born
Kaj Antero Riska

January 25., 1953
EducationHelsinki University of Technology
SpousePirjo Hannele Riska (née Nieminen)
ChildrenMats Nikolas (1985) and Jens Mikael (1989)
Engineering career
DisciplineNaval architecture, arctic technology
InstitutionsISO, POAC, IMO, ITTC, PolarTech, ISSC
Practice nameKaj Riska

Kaj Antero Riska (born January 25, 1953, Helsinki, Finland)[citation needed] is a naval architect and engineer with expertise in ice and arctic technology. He has written various publications about ice-going ships and icebreaker design, ice loads and ice management for arctic offshore floating platforms. He worked at Total S.A. as Senior Ice Engineer. He received the 2019 POAC Founders Lifetime Achievement Award.[1]

Exams

Kaj Riska graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology (TTK) (Finnish: Teknillinen korkeakoulu) in Naval Architecture as M.Sc. in 1978 and D.Sc. in 1988.[citation needed] He worked at the Technical Research Centre of Finland from 1977 to 1988 as the group leader for Arctic Marine Technology. From 1989 to 1991 he was a senior researcher for the Academy of Finland. From 1992 to 1995 he was the director of Arctic Offshore Research Centre and from 1995 to 2005 the professor of Arctic Marine Technology at the Helsinki University of Technology.[citation needed]

Since 2005 he has been a partner of the company ILS Oy and since 2006 Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. He and his Ph.D. students were investigating the models to describe the ice action on ships and their application in various ship design aspects.[2]

Kaj Riska passed his student exam (upper secondary school) at Helsingin Yhtenäiskoulu in May 1972. He received his Master of Science degree in naval architecture in June 1978 and his Doctor in Technology degree in September 1988, both issued by the Helsinki University of Technology.[citation needed]

Previous professional experience

From 1974 and up to 2005, Kaj Riska worked at many academic institutions as researcher or professor. These experiences can be summarized as follow:

  • TKK, Laboratory of Mechanics: assistant to professor.
  • Technical Research Centre of Finland, Ship Laboratory: research assistant, research scientist, senior research scientist and head of division.
  • TKK, Laboratory of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering: senior research scientist.
  • Academy of Sciences in Finland: senior fellow.
  • TKK, Arctic Offshore Research Centre: Director.
  • TKK, Ship Laboratory: acting professor and Professor in Arctic Marine Technology.

Also, he has been giving lectures at TKK, Laboratory of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in ship vibrations, winter navigation and marine technology. He worked as Project Manager from 1989 to 1992 in the same laboratory.

In 2005, Kaj Riska joined ILS Ltd as Senior Naval Architect and partner. ILS Lts is an independent, private owned consulting and engineering company, specialized in ship design and especially in ship project evaluation and basic design.[3] In 2012, Riska left ILS Ltd to join Total S.A.

Present activities

Since 2012, Kaj Riska is working at the supermajor Total in Paris[4][unreliable source?] [dead link] as Senior ice engineer. Total is positioned on two large-scale projects in the Arctic:[5] Shtokman and Yamal LNG, both in the Russian Arctic Shelf.
Riska is Professor II at the University of Science and Technology of Trondheim, Norway, since 2006

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