Mikko Kaasalainen

Mikko Kaasalainen
Born1965 (1965)
Died12 April 2020(2020-04-12) (aged 54–55)
SpouseSanna Kaasalainen
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
ThesisOn The Construction of Invariant Tori and Integrable Hamiltonians (1994)
Doctoral advisorJames Binney
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics, Astrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Tampere

Mikko K.J. Kaasalainen (1965 – 12 April 2020) was a Finnish applied mathematician and mathematical physicist. He was professor of mathematics at the department of mathematics at Tampere University of Technology. Kaasalainen mostly worked on inverse problems and their applications especially in astrophysics, as well as on dynamical systems.