Dr. Asta Kärkkäinen works as a Principal Researcher in Digital Media R&D Spatial Audio in Nokia Technologies. She got her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics on the area of Atom, Molecule and Laser Physics from the University of Helsinki, in 1997. The same year she joined Nokia Research Center, where she has developed design tools and methods, for example for computational 3D audio. As a research manager of the Predictive Engineering group in Multi Media Technology laboratory, she has coordinated research on Multidisciplinary design to enable optimal structural, thermal, acoustical, and electromagnetic performance of Nokia devices. When leading the Nano systems team she developed methods to design, fabricate, tailor and test devices with externally controllable functional materials and new kind of architectures suitable for the nano sized elements, and completely new kind of devices, as depicted in Red Dot Best of The Best award winner Nokia Morph concept. Currently, she has been involved in developing OZO, a device for Virtual Reality capture.