Captain Juha Kukkola has Master’s degree in Political science (2005) and Military science (2008) and serves as a research officer at Finnish National Defense University (FNDU). He is currently PhD student at FNDU and is writing his doctoral thesis on Russia’s military cyber power and strategy. He has served in Finnish Defense Forces from 2008 as a platoon leader, signals officer, staff officer and lecturer. He is specialized in Air defense, C4 systems and Russian and Cyber studies.