erker Björkqvist received his PhD in the area of process optimization in 2001.
In cooperation with the telecom industry, he was involved in developing the standards for digital broadcasting technologies, with the focus on system layer simulations and development. He was also involved in project on software defined radio, where the radio layer is implemented using software.

Currently he is working as a Associate Professor at the department if information technologies at Åbo Akadmi University in Turku, Finland. Current research is focusing on industrial Internet, with applications on utilizing industrial data for diagnostics and optimization.