Petteri Alinikula is heading the Core Technology Research in Nokia Research Center. Core Technology Research focuses on breakthrough technology research in wireless systems and services, Internet, media, smart spaces, pervasive communications, and high performance architectures.

He has been with Nokia Research Center since 1993 in several management positions. In his previous role as the Head of Strategic Research, Wireless Access, he worked closely with parties within Nokia to build a solid strategic research that directly impacted on company’s products and technologies. The research portfolio included challenging large scale research activities in system research for cellular and noncellular radios, chip sets for selected systems, antennas, and power management concepts.

Before joining Nokia Petteri worked at Helsinki University of Technology leading a research team around integrated circuits for communications.

Petteri earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, USA in 1992 and Engineering Diploma in Radio Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1988. In 1997 he was a Visiting Scientist at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He has continued to actively interact with Helsinki University of Technology, where he is an Adjunct Professor. His research interests lie in various fields of wireless technologies.
Petteri is the author or co-author of more than 50 articles in reviewed conferences and journals. He has four patents.

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