Heidi Kuusniemi is the director of FGI’s Department of Navigation and Positioning. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Built Environment at Aalto University in Espoo and in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Tampere University of Technology. She is also the current president of the Nordic Institute of Navigation. She received her M.Sc. and D.Sc.(Tech.) degrees from Tampere University of Technology in 2002 and 2005, respectively.