Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Interview with Jyrki Saarinen, the new Executive Director of EOS

Interview with Jyrki Saarinen, the new Executive Director of EOS DOI 10.1515/aot-2013-0038Adv. Opt. Techn. 2013; 2(4): 277­279 Community After the resignation of the former Executive Director in the Hannover (Germany) based office, the European Optical Society worked on a strategic re-orientation of its office. As a result, the office has moved to the campus of the University of Eastern Finland. Recently, the Board of the EOS appointed Jyrki Saarinen as the new Executive Director of the society. Andreas Thoss, Publisher of Advanced Optical Technologies, spoke with Jyrki Saarinen about his decisions and ambitions. AOT: You have worked more than a decade in industry. Why did you return to academia? Jyrki Saarinen: I really enjoyed my work in building a high-tech company: from a one-man startup to international large corporation with thousand employees. But it was time for change and to do something new. Academia was a kind of dream among several other, more realistic options in or close to industry. AOT: With your startup, you moved to Silicon Valley and lived there for many years. Why did you return to Finland? Jyrki Saarinen: When considering various options I got an invitation for a new professorship in photonics applications and commercialization at UEF in Finland. Knowing the high quality http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Advanced Optical Technologies de Gruyter

Interview with Jyrki Saarinen, the new Executive Director of EOS

Advanced Optical Technologies , Volume 2 (4) – Aug 1, 2013

Loading next page...
 
/lp/de-gruyter/interview-with-jyrki-saarinen-the-new-executive-director-of-eos-5U2ccFqkpY

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by the
ISSN
2192-8576
eISSN
2192-8584
DOI
10.1515/aot-2013-0038
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

DOI 10.1515/aot-2013-0038Adv. Opt. Techn. 2013; 2(4): 277­279 Community After the resignation of the former Executive Director in the Hannover (Germany) based office, the European Optical Society worked on a strategic re-orientation of its office. As a result, the office has moved to the campus of the University of Eastern Finland. Recently, the Board of the EOS appointed Jyrki Saarinen as the new Executive Director of the society. Andreas Thoss, Publisher of Advanced Optical Technologies, spoke with Jyrki Saarinen about his decisions and ambitions. AOT: You have worked more than a decade in industry. Why did you return to academia? Jyrki Saarinen: I really enjoyed my work in building a high-tech company: from a one-man startup to international large corporation with thousand employees. But it was time for change and to do something new. Academia was a kind of dream among several other, more realistic options in or close to industry. AOT: With your startup, you moved to Silicon Valley and lived there for many years. Why did you return to Finland? Jyrki Saarinen: When considering various options I got an invitation for a new professorship in photonics applications and commercialization at UEF in Finland. Knowing the high quality

Journal

Advanced Optical Technologiesde Gruyter

Published: Aug 1, 2013

There are no references for this article.