Bio: Marika Immonen

Marika Immonen is R&D manager at TTM Technologies, Inc. She is responsible for development of advanced PCBs with embedded optical interconnects and functions for future data communication systems. Prior joining TTM she worked as a Researcher in Aalto University (Helsinki Univ. of Technology, 2002‐2005), where she received her diploma M.Sc. degree majoring Electronic Production and Reliability Engineering in 2003. She worked then as a Specialist in Aspocomp Group (2005‐2008) in team developing optical PCBs and production prototypes. She is expert member on electrotechnical standardization association in Finland (SESKO) Fibre Optics subcommittee and in two IEC Standards subcommittees preparing emerging international standards proposals for optical functionalities in electronic devices. She has authored numerous conference and journal papers, and is a member in IEEE.