Ville-Valtteri Visuri is an Associate Professor and the leader of the Primary Metallurgy Research Group in the Process Metallurgy Research Unit at the University of Oulu. He also serves as Director of the Doctoral Degree Programme in Technology, Chemistry, and Geosciences at the University of Oulu Graduate School and as Chair of the Executive Board of the Centre for Advanced Steels Research (CASR).

His research focuses on the chemical and physical fundamentals of steelmaking processes using mathematical modelling, computational thermodynamics, and high-temperature experiments. He has worked extensively on argon–oxygen decarburisation, electric arc furnace steelmaking, gas-stirred ladles, hot metal desulphurisation and, most recently, hydrogen plasma smelting reduction. He has contributed to several consortium projects focusing on process development and sustainability in the steel industry, most recently to HELIOS (EU MSCA), H2PlasmaRed (EU Horizon Europe), and TOCANEM 2 (Business Finland). He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.

Visuri’s teaching focuses on master’s-level courses and doctoral education at the University of Oulu. He lectures on the primary metallurgy of steelmaking and on the modelling and simulation of metallurgical processes, and delivers guest lectures at universities in Finland and abroad. He has examined doctoral theses in several countries and is an Editorial Scholar for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B.

His academic and professional service includes board and council work in the Finnish metallurgical and university communities, including the Finnish Association of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and the Finnish Union of University Professors. He has acted as an expert witness for voestalpine BÖHLER Edelstahl GmbH & Co. KG.

Visuri studied Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Oulu, graduating with a B.Sc. (Tech.) in 2009 and an M.Sc. (Tech.) in 2011. During this time, he spent an exchange semester at the Technical University of Munich. He worked as a doctoral and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu from 2011 to 2020. During this period, he undertook a research visit to RWTH Aachen University in 2014, received a D.Sc. (Tech.) in Process Engineering in 2017, returned to RWTH Aachen University for a second research visit in 2019, and was awarded the title of Docent in Process Metallurgy in 2020. He then joined Outokumpu Stainless Oy, where he served as R&D Manager until 2022, before returning to the University of Oulu.

His working languages are Finnish, English, and German.