Antti Räisänen

Who is Antti Räisänen?

Antti V. Räisänen, D.Sc., is a Finnish scientist. He is the Professor and Head of the Department of Radio Science and Engineering in Aalto University. He is also the Director of SMARAD.

Antti V. Räisänen received the Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, in 1981. Dr. Räisänen was appointed to the Professor Chair of Radio Engineering at TKK in 1989, after holding the same position in 1985 and 1987-1989. He has held visiting scientist and professor positions at the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory and University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, at the Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley, at JPL Caltech, Pasadena, and at Paris Observatory and University of Paris VI.

Recently, Dr. Räisänen is supervising research in millimeter-wave components, antennas, receivers, microwave measurements, etc. at TKK Dept. of Radio Science and Engineering and MilliLab. He has authored and co-authored more than 400 scientific or technical papers and six books, for instance, "Radio Engineering for Wireless Communication and Sensor Applications". Also he is involved in some courses related to those field in European School of Antennas.