Summary
Giancarlo Pastor is an interdisciplinary innovation specialist and researcher with a decade of experience bridging AI, communications engineering and technology commercialization across academia, industry and European public funding. He currently leads co-innovation initiatives at the University of Helsinki while teaching entrepreneurship at IE Business School and advising the European Commission on AI ethics for 6G infrastructure. His background spans doctoral-level communications research, business development for interactive and mobile systems, and evaluation of major European R&D programmes, giving him a rare combination of technical depth and funding strategy expertise. Known for translating complex research (from stochastic geometry to augmented reality) into fundable, societally relevant projects, he navigates both technical trade-offs and policy implications. Based in Helsinki, he pairs an engineering foundation from Peru and Spain with an Aalto MBA to shepherd early-stage technologies toward commercialization.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate, Mathematics, Licentiate, Mathematics at Universidad Aut贸noma de Madrid
MBA, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, MBA, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Aalto University Executive Education Ltd
Engineer, Electronics Engineering, Engineer, Electronics Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica del Per煤
Doctor of Science, Communications Engineering, Doctor of Science, Communications Engineering at Aalto University
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
English, Spanish, Finnish