Executive committee member details

Heli Jantunen

Heli Jantunen was born in Oulu, Finland 1958. She received the M. Sc. Degree in astronomy and physics in 1982, the Diploma in education in 1985, and the M. Sc. Degree in electrical engineering in 1989. After being 10 years at industry, she joined the Microelectronics and Materials Physics Laboratories, University of Oulu, Finland in 1999 and received the Dr. Tech. degree in electrical engineering (with honors) in 2001.

She is Full Professor with the University of Oulu, Finland. Since 2004, she has been also the head of Electronics Materials, Packaging and Reliability Techniques (EMPART) Research Group of Infotech Oulu, which gathers together 6 research groups with versatile background. The research of her group focuses on development of novel electronics, RF and photonics applications by implementation of advanced microwave materials, smart structures and nanotechnology into multifunctional micromodules.  She has been or is currently engaged in research projects supported nationally (Finnish Funding Agency of Technology and Innovation, Academy of Finland) and internationally (Nordic Innovation Centre, EU). She has been invited speaker, session chair and scientific committee member in several international scientific conferences, general chair of the International Conference of Microwave Materials and their Applications in 2006, reviewer for scientific journals and she holds several national and international patents.

Prof. Jantunen is a member of IEEE and the American Ceramic Society, both since 2002, and steering committee member of research and technology programs of the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Funding Agency of Technology and Innovation.