Satu received MSc on 1998 from Faculty of Biosciences with minor (BSc) in Chemistry and PhD on 2007 from Department of Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences from the University of Helsinki. During her PhD she got fascinated about neuronal oscillations and since 2013, she has been leading an own research group at the Neuroscience Center focused on human network oscillations and complex dynamics. She was appointed 2018 Professor of MEG, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNi), School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, UK for which she holds a part-time position. She was a Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University of Oulu between 8/2023-1/2024. Since, 2/2024 she has been the director of the Neuroscience Center.
David obtained his PhD in neuroscience at Paris Science et letter (PSL) University in France. His research focuses on clinical brain imaging to further understand the system-level organization of the brain in psychiatric disorders. He joined the group in March 2024 to study the brain structure-function relationship in depression using multimodal imaging.
Nedjeljka "Nela" obtained her PhD from Lund University, Sweden, in 2018 where she investigated cortico-striatal-thalamic networks in healthy and Parkinsonian-like rodents. She then worked as a postdoc on developing and evaluating novel deep-brain stimulation electrode in rodents and pigs. She joined our lab in June 2023 and is currently investigating neuronal oscillations and synchronization in mouse ECoG and laminar data.
Wenya obtained her doctoral degree at the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä. She joined our lab in December 2021. She is working in the Wellcome Leap Multi-Channel Psych funded project on depression phenotyping.
Aniol has a PhD in Medicine and Translational Research from the University of Barcelona (Spain), where he investigated interindividual variability of brain function in schizophrenia by means of task-based and resting-state fMRI. He has also researched the brain mechanisms underlying working memory at New York University Abu Dhabi, using MEG to study effective connectivity.
Aniol joined the lab in September 2024 to investigate the neural geometry of memory representations using MEG and EEG.
Gaby obtained a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Glasgow (2014). She has researched neurofeedback and the functional relevance of neural variability for cognitive performance in healthy and brain injured population. She joined our group in August 2019, and is investigating how local neuronal oscillations, their large-scale interactions, and dynamics are related to visual perception and attention.
Noelia completed her MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, before pursuing her PhD at the University of Barcelona, where she investigated the neural correlates of specific music anhedonia using fMRI data. Subsequently, she joined Prof. Teppo Särkämö’s research group at the University of Helsinki, focusing on neuroplasticity mechanisms in neurological populations after music-based interventions. In her postdoctoral work with Prof. Gustavo Deco at UPF, she explored brain dynamics and whole-brain computational models using resting-state fMRI data from neurological and neuropsychiatric populations. Noelia joined our group in 2024, where she is characterizing Alzheimer’s disease progression focusing on brain dynamics and neuronal Excitation/Inhibition models.
Kasia obtained her PhD in 2016 from the University of Glasgow, where she investigated information processing speed delays in healthy ageing using EEG. She then worked as a postdoc on applying information theoretic tools to study computational principles underlying visual processing, using MEG. She joined the lab in 2023 to run a MEG-informed, concurrent TMS-EEG project studying the effects of entrainment on visual working memory performance.
Hamed has a BSc in Psychology from International Islamic University Malaysia and an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of York. He joined as a doctoral student in 2016 and is investigating the neural correlates and mechanisms of visual perception and visual working memory using EEG and MEG.
Alexandra has a MSc (Tech) in Human Neuroscience and Technology from Aalto University. She joined the lab in 2021 and is currently investigating the neural correlates and mechanisms of visual working memory using EEG and MEG.
Felipe obtained his MD from Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas da Santa Casa de Sao Paulo in Brazil. He investigated deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment-resistant depression at the University of Freiburg, Germany, followed by a Research Fellow position at the Cleveland Clinic, USA, where he investigated DBS for Parkinson’s disease. He then researched EEG brain network topology in epilepsy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, as an American Epilepsy Society Postdoctoral Fellow.Felipe joined the lab in the fall of 2024 to study cortical traveling waves, their relationship to critical phenomena in the brain, and their potential role in improving phenotypic classification of MDD.
Paula has a BSc in psychology from the University of Groningen and recently obtained a master's degree in neuroscience at the University of Helsinki. Paula joined the lab in 2021. Paula has a PhD position in the University of Oulu in collaboration with Mirka Hintsanen.
Judith studied Psychology at the University of Vienna, graduating with a Msc, and joined our group as a doctoral student in March 2021. She is now investigating neural correlates of visual attention and working memory with MEG and EEG.
Maria graduated with a MA in Psychology from the University of Jyväskylä in 2019. She joined our group in April 2021 and is currently helping to design experiments investigating the neuronal dynamics of cognitive control.