I was interviewed by Ashish for the CISO Chair podcast, discussing my journey from cognitive neuroscience to data protection and secure scientific computing.
Topics covered in the interview:
- How the reproducibility crisis in science led me to focus on data sharing and privacy
- The difference between anonymization and pseudonymization in practice
- Privacy-enhancing technologies for brain imaging data (MRI defacing)
- Managing HPC clusters for sensitive research workflows
- The European Health Data Space and trusted research environments
- AI reproducibility challenges and checkpointing strategies
- The Making Waves initiative for diversity and inclusion at Aalto
- My contribution to the European Data Protection Board’s training curriculum for SMEs
- Why GDPR was a positive change for research and business
- Ethical considerations when using AI tools for academic writing
The full interview is available on YouTube.