Matti Latva-aho

Matti Latva-aho (IEEE Fellow) is one of the world’s top researchers in wireless communications. Wireless data communications systems and networks are already central to the effective functioning of society, and their significance is continuing to increase. The capacity of wireless communications networks is ultimately constrained by limited spectrum availability. Under current plans, new spectrum allocations for mobile data communications will only be made at much higher frequency bands than those used at present. This will bring major changes to how future wireless radio systems should be planned and optimised. Latva-aho’s research will help to improve understanding of how the design criteria for future wireless systems will change and what kind of transmission technologies and transmitter/receiver architectures they should use. Matti Latva-aho was Academy Professor in 2017 – 2021 and Director for National 6G Flagship in 2018 – 2026 with a total budget of 251 M€.

Matti Latva-aho has worked on wireless communications research at the University of Oulu since the early 1990s. He was appointed professor of communications engineering in 2000. In 1998 – 2006, he served as the director of the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC).