About
Prof. Simona Lohan is a Full Professor at the Electrical Engineering unit of Tampere University, Finland, and a visiting professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research focuses on wireless positioning, GNSS algorithms, and wearable computing, with an emphasis on privacy-aware localization and interference mitigation. She leads the Signal Processing for Wireless Positioning research group and coordinates the H2020 MSCA European Joint Doctorate A-WEAR (2019-2023). She holds a PhD in Telecommunications from Tampere University of Technology (2003), and has authored/co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications.
Education background includes an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnics University of Bucharest (1997), a DEA in Econometrics from École Polytechnique, Paris (1998). Her research spans satellite navigation (Galileo/GPS/GLONASS), UMTS/WCDMA positioning, 5G positioning, IoT localization, and medical applications of positioning systems. She is an associate editor for the RIN Journal of Navigation and IET Journal on Radar, Sonar, and Navigation.
Key projects include the H2020 A-WEAR project (wearable health tech), Academy of Finland ULTRA (2020-2022), and SJU GATEMAN (2018-2019). Her work addresses global navigation challenges through LEO-PNT constellations, low-cost positioning solutions for Africa, and fusion of 5G/mmWave radar for airport surveillance. She has pioneered datasets like TUJI1 for indoor localization and developed open-source tools like SyDR for GNSS algorithm benchmarking.
Her research themes include:
- LEO satellite-based positioning systems
- Anti-spoofing techniques for GNSS
- RF fingerprinting for device identification
- Privacy-preserving localization algorithms
- IoT and industrial internet applications
- Embedded signal processing systems
Her team's innovations bridge communication and navigation domains, with applications in aviation, healthcare, and smart infrastructure. Recent work emphasizes energy-efficient GNSS signal processing and multi-constellation PNT solutions for global accessibility.
