Jyrki Kimmel

Jyrki Kimmel earned his M. Sc. and Licentiate of Technology degrees at Tampere University of Technology Electrical Engineering Department in 1986 and 1992, respectively. 

He has been active in the fields of optoelectronics and guided-wave biosensor research, having been working and studying at the Technical Research Centre of Finland and University of Utah, before joining Nokia in 1996. Since then he has been responsible for display-related research in the Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland, where currently he is Senior Research Manager of the Multimedia Input/Output devices Competence Area of the Audio-Visual Systems Laboratory. 

His main interests are displays, imaging, and related optics research. He also lectures on display related topics at the Tampere University of Technology, and he has participated as guest lecturer in the Displaymasters lecture series in the U. K. 

Mr. Kimmel is also active in the Society for Information Display, having first served as the Chairman, and for the past two years, as the Director, of the Mid-Europe Chapter.