Katja Parkkinen is a Product Development Engineer at Okmetic, world’s 7th largest silicon wafer supplier. She received the B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in physics in 2012 and 2015, specializing in materials and nanophysics, from University of Helsinki, Finland. Her M.Sc. thesis research on exotic metals with the University of Stuttgart, Germany, received a Best Posters Award in the International Conference on Magnetism in 2015. Prior to joining Okmetic in 2019, she held various other industry positions including in medical technology. In addition to R&D on silicon wafers, her current research topics include piezoelectric materials.