Veikko Halonen

Veikko Halonen has a wide experience as a researcher and a manager. He started his career as a researcher of cold protection of clothing at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. After that, he worked as a researcher and a teacher in theoretical physics at the University of Oulu and defended his doctorate in philosophy in 1992. Since 1997 he has been a docent in theoretical physics. From 1998 to 2006, he worked as a development manager at an IT service company and then as a research director at a regional unit of the University of Oulu until 2015. He started his current work as a researcher of robotics in 2017.