Marja Matinmikko-Blue is Research Director at University of Oulu and Director of Sustainability and Regulation in the university’s 6G Flagship program. She also holds an Associate Professorship in Spectrum Management.

Marja completed her Doctor of Science in Communication Engineering on cognitive radio systems in 2012 and Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering and Management on stakeholder analysis in 2018 at the University of Oulu. For more than two decades, she has been conducting multidisciplinary research on the technical, economic and regulatory aspects of future mobile communication systems in close collaboration with industry, academia and regulators. Marja has coordinated several national research project consortia that have successfully demonstrated new technologies, including the world's first Licensed Shared Access (LSA) spectrum trials and the introduction of a new local 5G operator concept that has already become a reality in many countries. She has actively contributed to and participated in regulatory bodies at national, European and international level, most recently in ITU-R work on IMT-2030 (6G). She has published more than 230 scientific papers and written more than 200 statements and contributions to regulatory bodies.