Kari Hjelt
July 1, 2025 2025-07-01 20:00Kari Hjelt
Head of Innovation at Graphene Flagship
Dr. Kari Hjelt holds a PhD in Engineering Physics from Helsinki University of Technology, as well as an Executive MBA from the London Business School. Dr. Hjelt has extensive experience in building up corporate research and venture activities. He has been the founder and CEO of several start-up companies, as well as worked as director at Nokia Ventures Organization and at Nokia Research Centre. Currently Kari works as Head of Innovation at the Graphene Flagship, where he also has been a member of the Management Panel and the Executive Board.
Roche has co-authored about 300 journal papers (WoS), including Rev. Mod. Physics, as well as more than 40 publications in Physical Review Letters & Nano Letters, and 15 papers and reviews in Nature series (Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Physics, Nature Materials and Nature Communications). A full list of publications is available at http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=91qBGI0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
He has served for ten years as Spintronic workpackage leader in the Graphene Flagship (GF) and as DIVISION leader on “Enabling Science and Materials”, and as such he was member of the management panel of the GF. He is currently involved in the IAM4EU initiative (www.iam-i.eu) and has been appointed to coordinate efforts for promoting the deployment of AI in the innovation processes of advanced materials.
He is Editor in Chief of J. Phys. Materials from IoP and one of the main organisers of key international conference series GRAPHENE 20XX https://www.grapheneconf.com and since QUANTUM MATTER 20XX https://www.quantumconf.eu and AI4AM https://ai4am.net/
He has served for ten years as Spintronic workpackage leader in the Graphene Flagship (GF) and as DIVISION leader on “Enabling Science and Materials”, and as such he was member of the management panel of the GF. He is currently involved in the IAM4EU initiative (www.iam-i.eu) and has been appointed to coordinate efforts for promoting the deployment of AI in the innovation processes of advanced materials.
He is Editor in Chief of J. Phys. Materials from IoP and one of the main organisers of key international conference series GRAPHENE 20XX https://www.grapheneconf.com and since QUANTUM MATTER 20XX https://www.quantumconf.eu and AI4AM https://ai4am.net/
