Dr. Juuso Autiosalo is an entrepreneur with research background and a mission to give real world assets a similar revolution that digital information received from the World Wide Web. He defended his doctoral dissertation on the scalability of digital twins for industrial products at Aalto University in 2021 and introduced the Digital Twin Web initiative to foster the adoption of standardized and networked digital twins. He is currently a co-founder of Twinbase, a startup company turning this vision into reality by first synchronizing construction product data across systems and organizations. Autiosalo has a multidisciplinary mindset with technical background; he designs and sometimes implements software in addition to having a huge passion to do business.
Dr. Autiosalo is a globally renowned digital twin pioneer with more than 700 citations and h-index of 13 in Google Scholar and a solid track record of successful funding applications. He started his doctoral studies in 2017 as the project manager of DigiTwin project which laid the foundation of Aalto’s digital twin research in collaboration with industry partners such as Konecranes. Autiosalo has instructed eight master’s theses from three disciplines and has a practical background in designing and building mechatronic machines such as electric moped and hydraulic pressure accumulators.
