Hi, I am Jonas Oppenlaender ().

In my previous position, I was a Senior Research Scientist at Elisa Corporation in Helsinki, Finland,where my aim was to research, identify, propose, and evaluate effective recipes and technical solutions for adapting LLMs and LLM-based agents to specialized tasks within telecommunications and engineering. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä in Central Finland where I researched prompt engineering and text-to-image generation. Prompt engineering has been my primary research interest since 2021.

I completed my PhD in the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Oulu, where I received a distinction for my thesis on creative crowdsourcing, creativity support tools, and crowd feedback systems. I also hold a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science with distinction from the University of Southampton and studied Industrial Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany and Linköping University in Sweden, earning a degree of Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur. Before my doctoral position, I worked as a researcher at the Human-Centered Computing group at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Cluster of Excellence "Bild Wissen Gestaltung" in Berlin. I also have industry experience as a Business Analyst and Strategy Analyst at Alstom (now GE) and have worked in agile teams as a web developer at Seme4 and Liip.

My current research interests, based on the academic literature I read, are reflected on this page. A list of researchers who have inspired my work over the years can be found here.

In my spare time, I enjoy dabbling with AI-generated art and am a kettlebell salesman. I have lived, studied, and/or worked in several countries including Germany, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Macedonia, the United States, and Finland.