Kimmo Raatikainen has M.Sc. (1983) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees in computer science (University of Helsinki). He was a system manager at the Finnish State Computer Centre, Division of University Support, 1981-1985. From 1986 he has been employed by the Helsinki University Computer Science Department in various positions; from 1998 as a Full Professor. He is the leader of Distributed Systems and Data Communications section at the department.

From January 2000 Professor Raatikainen has been part-time Principal Scientist (and Research Fellow from April 2004) in Nokia Research Center and from January 2002 also part-time Principal Scientist (leading the Mobile Computing research area) in the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). From August 2004 he has been the head of Helsinki Graduate School in Computer Science and Engineering (HeCSE). He is also an adjunct professor (docent) at Helsinki University of Technology (Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory).

Professor Raatikainen has had a leading role in several European projects including DOLMEN (AC036), MONTAGE (AC325), PRIME (AC370), HPGIN (ESPRIT 29737), BRAIN (IST-1999-10050), CRUMPET (IST-1999-20147), MIND (IST-2000-28584). He has also led several national research projects (funded by the National Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES) and industry) on mobile computing, wireless communication, middleware for mobile computing and on telecommunications software architectures.

His current research interests include operating systems, Internet protocols and middleware for mobile distributed systems. He has over 100 scientific publications in these areas.