Docent Miko Helle is a senior lecturer in Process and Systems Engineering at ÅAU. He has a doctoral thesis from the same university in 2009 on data-driven analysis of conditions in the blast furnace high-temperature region, and a Docent position on Modeling and Optimization of Iron and Steelmaking at Aalto University, Helsinki.  As a postdoctoral fellow he has participated in many national and European projects on iron- and steelmaking and with companies in the steelmaking sector, including SSAB, Tata Steel, POSCO and Danieli Corus. In 2019-2024 he was Key Account Manager of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at ÅAU