Dr Valtteri Vuorisalo has over 20 years of experience in the defence industry, spanning international military missions, defence consulting, and academia. He currently drives business in the private sector as both a business owner and subject matter expert. Dr Vuorisalo is a leading expert in the relationship between emerging technologies and security, and is a thought leader in Finnish national security and the geopolitics of technology.

He is a part-time Professor of Practice in National Security and Security Policy at the University of Tampere and brings extensive practitioner and policy insights to this field.

In addition, Dr Vuorisalo is a member of the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications’ high-level working group for digitalisation, the data economy, and new technologies.

He is also an Executive Board Member of the Finnish Information Security Cluster, a Board Member of Finland’s Wartime Economy Society, and has served as a board member for the Scientific Advisory Board for Defence (MATINE) at Finland’s Ministry of Defence.

Qualifications

• Professor of Practice, National Security and Security policy, Tampere University (2021)
• Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, King’s College London (2018)
• Doctor’s degree, International Relations, Tampere University (2012)
• Master’s degree, International Relations, Tampere University (2001)

Research Areas

• Geopolitics of Technology
• Defence Innovation and Experimentation
• Defence Interoperability
• Flow Security

Dr Vuorisalo’s research focuses on how data and information flows are utilised to project power within the international security architecture.

Publications

• Vuorisalo, V., 2024. Murrosteknologiat ja Suomi. Maanpuolustus 150. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public.
• Paukkunen, S. & Vuorisalo, V., 2022. Towards a 'Bastion of the North': The UK and a New Northern Security Architecture. The Integrated Review in Context: Defence and Security in Focus, 3, October, pp. 29–32. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional.
• Vuorisalo, V. & Aaltola, M., 2021. Towards a Data-Centric Great Game: New Challenges for Small States in Contemporary Power Politics. ULKOPOLIITTINEN INSTITUUTTI, pp. 9. (FIIA Briefing Paper; no. 324). Research output: Working paper.
• Vuorisalo, V., 2021. UK Integrated Review: Perspective on Technology. The Integrated Review in Context: Defence and Security in Focus, 2, October, pp. 69–72. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional.
• Vuorisalo, V., 2018. Algorithmic Life and Power Flows in the Digital World. In: M. Lehto & P. Neittaanmäki, eds. Cyber Security: Power and Technology. Cham: Springer, Vol. 93, pp. 233–247. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol. 93, no. 93. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-reviewed.
• Aaltola, M., Käpylä, J. & Vuorisalo, V., 2014. The Challenge of Global Commons and Flows for US Power: The Perils of Missing the Human Domain. Ashgate. Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-reviewed.
• Vuorisalo, V., 2012. Developing Future Crisis Management: An Ethnographic Journey into the Community and Practice of Multinational Experimentation. Tampere: Tampere University Press. (Acta Universitatis Tamperensis; no. 1731). Research output: Book/Report › Doctoral thesis › Monograph.

Research Centres and Groups 

The Cyber Bridge Forum, the Nordic-Baltic CyberSkills Think Tank.