Heikki Pohjola

Mr. Heikki Pohjola is working as Scientific Officer at WMO Space Programme. Before his career at WMO he worked at EUMETSAT as a Remote Sensing Scientist for Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite mission and especially on its Lightning Imager (LI) instrument development. Before EUMETSAT he worked for a decade in the field of weather radars and lightning detection systems in private sector at Vaisala. He holds MSc in Meteorology from the University of Helsinki, where he started his career working at Finnish Meteorological Institute as a research scientist in the field of remote sensing.