Prof. Emeritus of Information Retrieval, Tampere University, Finland.
The Tony Kent Strix Award 2009 (in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval; http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/tonykentstrix.html).
Research in Information Science Award 2012 for outstanding research contributions in the field of Information Science, ASIS&T (Association for Information Science and Technology, USA), see http://www.asis.org/awards/2012_winners.html .
ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award 2018 for significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval (http://sigir.org/awards/gerard-salton-awards/).
