!!Taina Pihlajaniemi - Curriculum Vitae \\ __Research expertise:__ Internationally leading expert on collagens \\ \\ __Education and degrees completed:__ \\ *1987 Docent in Medical Biochemistry, Univ. of Oulu, Finland \\ *1987 Doctor of Medical Sciences (equivalent to Ph.D.), Univ. of Oulu \\ *1981 Licentiate of Medicine, Univ. of Oulu, and license to practice medicine \\ __Current and previous positions:__ \\ *2010-2025, Vice Rector/Vice President (Research), Univ. of Oulu \\ *1991-2009 Chairman, Depart. of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Univ. of Oulu \\ *1990- Professor of Medical Biochemistry, Univ. of Oulu \\ *1985-1990 Research Associate and Junior Research Fellow, Academy of Finland (AoF) \\ *1982-1985 Research/Teaching Specialist III (post-doctoral fellow), University of Medicine and Dentistry - Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA \\ __Research supervision:__ \\ \\ Supervised 47 PhD or MD-PhD degrees to completion and 28 post-doctoral scientists \\ \\ __Previous leadership experience:__ \\ *2000 - 2005 (Vice) Director, Collagen Research Unit, Univ. of Oulu, AoF Center of Excellence in Research \\ *1996 - 2009 Scientific Director, Biocenter Oulu and the core facilites \\ *1996 - 2009 Director, Biocenter Oulu Graduate School \\ *2006 - 2007 Founding Director, Biocenter Finland \\ *2012 - 2017 Director, AoF Center of Excellence in Cell-Extracellular Matrix Research \\ __Teaching experience:__ \\ \\ 1990-2009 Head of medical and dental studies in chemistry, medical biochemistry and molecular biology, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Oulu \\ \\ __Evaluation of academic competence and search committee memberships:__ \\ *Pre-examiner, Doctoral Dissertations (7 times), Univ. of Helsinki and Turku \\ *Opponent, Doctoral Dissertations (6 times), Univ. of Oulu, Turku, Rennes, Uppsala \\ *Evaluator, Docentships (8 times), Univ. of Turku and Helsinki \\ *Evaluator, Professorships (3 times), Univ. of Kuopio, Turku and Helsinki \\ __Keynote and speaker invitations:__ ca. 3-4/year \\ \\ __Experience of organizing scientific meetings:__ \\ *2006, Chair, the XXth Meeting of the Federation of European Connective Tissue Societies, Oulu, Finland \\ *2009, Chair, Mouse as a Model Organism Conference, Rovaniemi, Finland \\ *2019, 2023, Vice chair in 2019 and Chair in 2021 (re-scheduled to 2023 due to COVID-19 pandemic) of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Collagen, New London, USA\\ \\