Aalto University

Prof. Raimo Sepponen, started applications of magnetic resonance imaging in diagnosis of internal hemorrhages. In 70s he led the team to build the first in northern Europe MRI-scanner for clinical use. He has been developing imaging methods and devices for MRI, obtained 36 related patents. He was invited 1995 to be a professor of applied electronics at Helsinki University of Technology (now the ELEC School of Aalto University). Since that time he has been teaching and studying methods and instrumentation of medical imaging and generally medical technology e.g. for elderly care. His group has been generating eight spin-off companies. Prof Sepponen has coauthored more than 100 journal papers most of them on medical instrumentation. His h-index is 25.

Prof. Constantin R. Simovski, is an expert in homogenization of planar and bulk metamaterials. In his career he suggested several numerical and analytical methods of solving different problems of applied electrodynamics and contributed into the basic theory of photonic crystals. Recently, he has developed original approaches to prospective nanostructures for advanced photonics. His recent research is in the area of nanostructures for light and heat electricity conversion, harvesting and radiation. Prof. Simovski has got a strong expertise in metasurfaces for decoupling the arrayed radio frequency antennas and in wire-media endoscopes. He has published 156 papers in refereed journals, one monograph, and many conference papers. His h-index is 32 in ISI Web of Science and 37 in Google Scholar.

Prof. Sergiy Vorobyov, is an expert on statistical and array signal processing. He has published over 60 journal papers and about 120 conference papers in the areas of his research interests most of which are in statistical and array signal processing. Among his prestigious research awards there is a work on robust adaptive beam-forming design in radar and array processing, which received the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s 2004 Best Paper Award and later gained a status of highly cited paper (top 1%) according to ISI Web of Knowledge. His current research activities include MIMO, phased-MIMO radar, adaptive beam-forming, multi-linear algebra, optimization, and game theoretic methods in signal processing, etc.

Masoud Sharifian Mazraeh Mollaei (25 March 1989), Male, Engineer, PhD student. Research interests: metamaterials, frequency selective surface, antenna array and magnetic resonance imaging. Role in the Project: analytical and numerical modeling, measurements of RF coils with metamaterials.