Antti Raisanen

Education

Antti V. Räisänen received the Doctor of Science (Technical) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland, in 1981.

Career

He is the Professor and Head of the Department of Radio Science and Engineering in Aalto University (former Helsinki University of Technology). He is also the Director of SMARAD (The Center of Smart Radios and Wireless Research). Doctor 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 (FCRAO) and University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), Amherst (1978–1981), at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden (1983), at the Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley (1984–1985), at Jet Propulsion Laboratory Caltech, Pasadena (1992–1993), and at Paris Observatory and University of Paris VI (2001–2002).

Recently, Doctor Räisänen is supervising research in millimeter-wave components, antennas, receivers, microwave measurements, et cetera at TKK Department of Radio Science and Engineering and MilliLab (Millimetre Wave Laboratory of Finland - European Space Agency External Laboratory). 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. Doctor Räisänen has been Conference Chairmen for several international microwave and millimeter wave conferences including the European Microwave Conference (EuMC) in 1992.

In 1997, he was elected the Vice-Rector of TKK for the period of 1997-2000.

He served as an Associate Editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques from 2002 o 2005. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers since 1994 for contribution to and leadership in millimeter-wave receiver technology.

Achievements

• In 2009, Doctor Räisänen has been awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by AMTA (which is AMTA"s most prestigious award) for his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the Theory, Practice and Art of Hologram-based Compact Antenna Test Ranges at Submillimeter Wavelengths.

Membership

He is a member of the Board of Director of the European Microwave Association (EuMA) for 2006–2008 and 2009-2011.