Dr. Mika Luimula works as a Research Group Leader of Futuristic Interactive Technologies and as an Executive Lecturer of Game and Interactive Technologies for Turku University of Applied Sciences. He holds a PhD in Information Processing Sciences and an MSc in Mathematics. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Turku. In addition, he is a senior advisor to the board of Ade Ltd and a co-innovator for ProVerse Ltd. His research interests include industrial metaverse, serious games, virtual reality, augmented reality, health informatics and location-aware systems. He has published around 160 scientific papers and his research group has won various awards in the abovementioned research areas.