Jeroen Wigard

Biography

Jeroen Wigard is the Principal Research Lead at Nokia. He earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Technische Universiteit Delft in the Netherlands in 1995, followed by a Ph.D. from Aalborg University in Denmark in 1999, focusing on handover algorithms and frequency planning in frequency hopping GSM networks. Jeroen joined Nokia in Aalborg, Denmark, where he has contributed to radio resource management across multiple generations of mobile networks, including 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, and now 6G. Currently, he is part of Nokia Standards in Aalborg, leading research activities for 5G-Advanced and 6G standardization in the areas of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies, and Sensing. He has a portfolio of over 100 journal and conference papers and holds more than 150 patent applications.