Mikko Varonen

Mikko Varonen received the M.Sc., Lic.Sc., and D.Sc. degrees (Hons.) in electrical engineering from Aalto University (formerly the Helsinki University of Technology), Espoo, Finland, in 2002, 2005, and 2010, respectively. In 2011, he was a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA. In 2012, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher and an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Micro- and Nanosciences, Aalto University, from 2013 to 2016. During his Postdoctoral Fellowship, he was a Visiting Scientist with JPL, Electrical Engineering Department, Caltech, and the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Solid-State Physics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He is currently a Senior Scientist and an Academy of Finland Research Fellow with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Espoo. His current research interests include the development of millimeter-wave integrated circuits using both silicon and compound semiconductor technologies for applications ranging from astrophysics and earth remote sensing to millimeter-wave communications.