Biography
Prof. Finger is an Electrical Engineer and Physicist. He started his career in telecommunications where he designed and deployed microwave networks, and developed instrumentation for the forest and mining industry. Then he moved to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) where he worked in the USA and Chile, in the development and integration of ALMA cryogenic receivers.
From 2013 he is a professor at Universidad de Chile, hired by the CPI programme (Construyendo Puentes Interdisciplinarios) to develop interdisciplinary research between Astronomy and Electrical Engineering, innovation and technology transfer. He has worked in the USA, Sweden and UK and now leads the Millimeter Wave Laboratory, where he develops high frequency receivers, real time digital signal processors and ultra-wideband antenna arrays. In 2017 he was awarded the prestigious Avonni National Innovation Prize and currently leads technology transfer efforts from academy to industry.