https://research.aalto.fi/portal/riitta.hari.html (publictions in Aalto University Research Information System)

https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=7pA__yMAAAAJ&hl=fi (Google Scholar citations)

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/J-1880-2012 (ReseacherID citations)

 

CURRENT POSITION 

•  Academician of Science, Academy of Finland  (2010–)

•  Aalto Distinguished Professor, Aalto University (2012–), emerita at Aalto since Feb 2016  

 

Contact: riitta.hari@aalto.fi

Department of Art

School of Arts, Design and Architecture

PO Box 31000

Aalto University

FI-00076 AALTO, Helsinki, FINLAND

Street address: Hämeentie 135 C, 5th floor

00560 Helsinki, FINLAND   

 

  

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1983 Docent (Senior Lecturer) of Neurophysiology, University of Helsinki  

1981 Specialist in Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Helsinki  

1980 Doctor of Medical Sciences (MD PhD), University of Helsinki  

1974 Licentiate of Medicine (MD), University of Helsinki

  

 

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

1991–2014 Academy Professor, Academy of Finland (3 terms; 1991–1996 &1999–2004 & 2010–2014)

1982–2014 Head of Brain Research Unit (BRU), O.V. Lounasmaa Lab, Aalto University [head of neuroscience; MEG instrumentation development was directed by Prof. Lounasmaa until the formation of the Neuromag Ltd company]

2005–2011 Chief physician/consultant, Dept Clinical Neurophysiol/HUSLAB, HUCH (part-time)  

1996–2011 Professor (at Low Temperature Lab), Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)

2009–2010 Coordinator of the national infrastructure “NEUROIMAGING”

2003–2009 Director of Advanced Magnetic Imaging Centre at TKK

2004–2007 Adjunct Professor, Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki  

1997–2004 Consultant/Chief, Section of Neuromagnetism, Dept Clin Neurosci, HUCH (part-time)  

1994  Kyoto Univ Guest Professor (Faculty of Medicine, Dept Brain Pathophysiol) 1 mo  

1982–1991 Junior and Senior Research Fellow (Academy of Finland)  

1982  Visiting scientist, INSERM, starting up MEG at Ambroise Paré Hospital, Paris, 1 mo  

1981–1982 Specialist of Clinical Neurophysiology (HUCH, Depts Neurol & Neurosurg); tenure  

1974–1978 Research Associate (Univ. Helsinki, Dept. Physiology), total 3 yrs 8 mo

  

 

RESEARCH AWARDS AND HONOURS

2016 Honorary Member of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology  

2015 Fellow of the American Physiological Society (FAPS)  

2012 Honorary Member of the Finnish Society of Clinical Neurophysiology  

2012 Distinguished Professor (Aalto University, Finland)

2011 Academy of Technical Sciences (Finland; by election only)  

2010 Academician of science (Finland; one among 12, all fields included)  

2004 National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Foreign Associate (by election only)  

1997 Rodin Remediation Academy, corresponding/acting member (by election only)  

1994 Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (by election only)  

1993 Academia Europaea (by election only)  

 

2011 Nokia Foundation Recognition Award 

2009 Finnish Science Prize 

2007 Writer Prize, Finnish Medical Association Duodecim, Finland  

2006 Erkki Kivalo Prize and lecture (by Neurology Foundation, Finland)  

2003 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2003 [& research grant] (Switzerland)  

2003 Physiologist of the Year (by Society for Physiology in Finland)  

2002 Justine and Yves Sergent Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience (Canada)  

2001 Matti Äyräpää Prize by the Finnish Medical Association Duodecim

2001 ALVAR Prize by Finnish dyslexia societies  

1999 1^st Curt-von-Euler Honorary Lecture [& Award] in Cognitive and Neurobiological Aspects of Reading and Language Development (Rodin Remediation Academy)  

1987 Award for the Advancement of European Science [& research grant] (Körber Foundation, Germany; with Matti Krusius, Olli V. Lounasmaa, and Martti Salomaa)  

 

2016 Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa, School of Science, Aalto University, Finland (7 Oct 2016)  

2005 Doctor of Medicine Honoris Causa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuopio, Finland  

2003 Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal  

 

2014 Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland  

2002 Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland  

 

 

MAJOR PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

2009–2014 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant “Towards Two-Person Neuroscience”

2009–2014 Director of Aalto University’s research project “aivoAALTO – Bringing complex  

    social  interaction, decision-making, and cinematics into the brain imaging laboratory”   

2006–2011 Director of the Centre of Excellence on “Systems Neuroscience and Neuroimaging”

2007–2008 Initiator and coordinator of the Argumenta Mind Forum (Mieli-forum; multidisciplinary series of me ings funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation (& lead author of the book Ihmisen Mieli, Gaudeamus 2015) 

1999 Founding member of “NeuroHUT”, HUT Centrum for Neurosystems (and later initiator of the NeuroCafé meetings)  

1997 Founder of CliniMEG, a research team to develop MEG’s clinical applications  

1996 European Dana Alliance for the Brain, Founding Member

1995–2012 Finnish Graduate School of Neuroscience (later Doctoral Programme of Brain & Mind), Founding member & Member of Executive Board   

1994–2003 EU's Research Infrastructure Neuro-BIRCH I–III, contractor/coordinator; 3 periods  

1998–2001 Human Frontier Science grant for Action Representation System; partner  

1997–2000 EU BioTech grant for Computerized Human Brain Atlas; partner

1989 Founding member of Mustekala, later to become Neuromag company (a 5-person team comprising Antti Ahonen, Riitta Hari, Matti Hämäläinen, Jukka Knuutila and Olli V. Lounasmaa)  

Long-term funding by the Academy of Finland and by the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation; additional significant funding by e.g. Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in Health and Well-being (SHOK; SalWe Ltd., Finland

 

 

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS AND PUBLICATION/GRANT/PRIZE REVIEWING

Past: Brain Topography: A Journal of Functional Neurophysiology (1987–2007); Psychiatry Research, section 'Neuroimaging' (1990–1996); Human Brain Mapping (1992–2003; assoc editor in 1999–2002); Electroenceph and Clinical Neurophysiology (Clinical Neurophysiology 1999–; 1994–2005); NeuroImage (1995–2007); Neuroscience Research (Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience 2000–2013; international reviewer 1994–2000)

Current: Cerebral Cortex 2005– ; Animal Sentience 2015–; & requently visiting editor in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2004–)

•  Ad-hoc referee for (57) scientific journals: Acta Physiol Scand, Animal Cogn, Audiol, Audiol & Neuro-Otol, Autism Res, Biophys J, Br J Psychol, Brain, Brain and Lang, Brain Res, Brain Res Bull, Brain Res Bullet, Brain Topogr, Cer Cortex, Clin Neurophysiol, Cogn Brain Res, Comput Intellig and Neurosci, Consc and Cognit, Curr Biol, Devel Psychol, Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol, Eur J Neurosci, Exp Brain Res, Front Human Neurosci, Hearing Res, Human Brain Mapp, Intern J Pediatric Otorhinolaryngol, Intern J Psychophysiol, J Acoust Soc Am, J Neurophysiol, J Nsci Meth, J Visual Expts, Molec Pain, Nature, Nature Neurosci, Neural Comput, NeuroImage, Neurology, Neuron, Neuropsychologia, NeuroReport, Neurosci Lett, Neurosci Res, Neuroscience, PLOS One, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, Proc Royal Soc London Series B, PsyCh Journal, Psychiatry Res, Schizophr Res, Science, Science Translat Med, Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, Soc Neurosci, Stroke, Trends Cogni Sci, Vis Res

•  Ad-hoc referee for national and international grant applications: Academy of Finland; Organization for Scientific Research (MRC-NWO); FWF – Fonds für Forde­rung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria); Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique 'Sciences de la Cognition', CNRS (France); Life Sciences Foundation (The Netherlands); Medical Research Council (United Kingdom); Medical Research Council of Canada; Ministere de l’Education Nationale, de la Reserche et de la Technologie (France); National Science Foundation (USA); Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO; Sigrid Jusélius Foundation (Finland); Swiss National Science Foundation; The Wellcome Trust (Great-Britain); Mid-term evaluation of Neuro-IT Projects (EU)

 

2011–2016  Member of the International selection committee for the Millennium Technology Prize

2009  Chair of the Neuroscience Panel (L5), ERC Advanced Investigator Grants

1998–2001 Member of the Selection Panel for the Wiley Young Investigator's Award (USA)  

1998 Evaluation of candidates for the Geschwind-Rodin Prize  

1996–1998 Member of the Advisory Panel ('Human Cognition') of the James S McDonnell

       Foundation Centennial Fellow Awards Program (USA) giving 2 x 1 M$ prizes  

 

 

SUPERVISING AND EVALUATION ACTIVITIES

•  Direct supervisor [“instructor” in Aalto University’s terminology] of 41 doctoral dissertations (20 females, 21 males): [Elina Kaukoranta 1985 (psychology), Juha Huttunen 1987 (clinical neurophysiology), Jyrki Mäkelä 1988 (neurology), Jari Tiihonen 1989 (psychiatry), Sirkka-Liisa Joutsi­niemi 1990 (clinical neurophy­sio­logy), Jari Karhu 1993 (clinical neurophysio­logy), Ritva Paetau 1994 (neuro­pediatrics), Nina Forss 1995 (neurology), Juha-Pekka Vasama 1995 (audiology), Sari Levänen 1996 (neuro­psycho­logy), Mikko Uusitalo 1997 (physics), Stephan Salenius 1997 (psychiatry), Karin Portin 1998 (physics), Simo Vanni 1998 (neu­rology), Veikko Jousmäki 1998 (medical physics), Päivi Helenius 1999 (psycho­logy), Jussi Numminen 1999 (neurosur­gery), Tommi Raij 2000 (neurology), Cristina Simoes 2002 (physics), Teija Silén 2003 (neurology), Sari Avikainen 2003 (neurology), Hanna Renvall 2003 (radiology), Juha Järveläinen 2005 (radiology), Tuukka Raij 2005 (psychiatry), Marjatta Pohja 2005 (neurology), Yevhen Hlushchuk 2007 (radiology), Mika Seppä 2007 (physics), Gina Caetano 2007 (physics), Topi Tanskanen 2008 (psychology), Lauri Parkkonen Jun 2009 (physics), Nuutti Vartiainen 2009 (neurology), Ville Renvall 2010 (physics), Sanna Malinen 2010 (physics), Miiamaaria Kujala 2010 (cognitive science), Pavan Ramkumar 2012 (signal analysis), Satu Lamminmäki 2012 (ENT, medicine), Jaana Hiltunen 2013 (biomedical engin), Lotta Hirvenkari 2015 (neurobiology), Siina Pamilo 2015 (biomedical engin), Anne Mandel 2016 (cognitive science), Jaakko Hotta 2017 (neurology)]

•   Partial (ex officio) supervision of 6 additional doctoral theses

•   Supervisor of 40 long-term postdoctoral students (16 f, 24 m; 14 from Finland, 26 from abroad)

•  Reviewer for competence for professorships 34 times (1 in Finland, 33 abroad), and for for competence for election to Royal Society Fellow (UK) 2 times

 

 

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARDS AND EVALUATION TEAMS

2007–2009 Member of Adv Board, Neuroinformatics Coordin Facil (INCF), Natnl Node Finland 2007–2009

2012 Member of Internat Sci Adv Board, Karolinska Institute NeuroSTRAT 2012–

2011 Member of the Adv Board, Instituto e Biofisica e Engenharia Biomédica (IBEB) da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa 2011

1998– Member of Advis Council, Internat Assoc for the Study of Attention and Perform Member of Executive Board 2013–2015

1996 Member of the Scientific Adv Board of the National PET Center, Turku, Finland  

1995–1997  Member of the Advisory Board of the BioMag Installation at HUCH  

1992–1994 & 1997–1998  Member of the Steering Committee of the BioMag Installation at HUCH    

1989–1994 Member of the General Committee, Integrated Studies on Physiological Functions,

   National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

 

2011 Evaluator of the Karolinska Institute & Hospital Neuroscience Units (10-person team)  

2006–2007 Member of the 3-person “Year 2006 Science Book” award evaluation board  

2005–2006 Evaluator of National Functional Brain Imaging Network in Portugal (3-person team)  

2004 Consultation on imaging infrastructure, University of Copenhagen, Denmark  

2003 Evaluator of Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience, Univ of Turku (2-person team)  

2001 Evaluator of Cognitive Brain Science Group, Riken BSI, Japan (6-person team)  

2000 Evaluator of Turku PET Center (3-person team)  

1994 Evaluation report on Medical Registration Data on the Use of 122-channel Neuromagnetometer for the Ministry of Health in Japan  

 

1998–2006 Finland–Taiwan Scientific Cooperation, Bilateral Exchange Program, Coordinator of Functional Brain Mapping

2001–2003 Board of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study, Vice member  

1999–2005 Vice-member of the STAKES Evaluation Board of Healthcare Methods

  

  

MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETES

1997–2000 Councillor, Organization for Human Brain Mapping  

• Brain Research Society of Finland (Secretary 1980–1983 & President 1994–1997)

• Society for Clinical Neurophysiology in Finland (steering committee & secretary)

• Society for Physiol in Finland; Eur Neurosci Ass (ENA); Internat Brain Res Org (IBRO); Soc for Neurosci (USA); The Am Physiol Soc (USA)  

 

 

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

•  Organizer of international scientific meetings (15 times)

Panel Biomagnetism in the Study of Human Brain; 5th Internat Confer in Biomagnetism, Van­cou­ver, Canada [1985]; Satellite Symp on Magneto­encephalography; XXXI Internat Congr Physiol Sci, Helsinki [1989]; Symp 'Magnetoencephalography (MEG): Its Basis and Application to Study on Dynamic Functions of the Human Brain'; Fourth IBRO World Congress of Neurosci, Kyoto, Japan (with K. Sasaki) [1995]; NorFa Summer Course on Human Cortical Functions, Finland (with M. Sams) [1995]; Satellite Symp on Magnetoencephalography, X Internat Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology, Kyoto, Japan (with K. Sasaki & H. Shibasaki) [1995]; Symposium 'Magnetoencephalography'; Europ Congress of Clinical Neurophysiol, Munich, Germany [1996]; Symposium on 'Non-Invasive Study of Higher Brain Functions'; XXXIII Internat Congress of Physiol Sciences, St Peters­burg, Russia (with M. Raichle) [1997]; Brain Imaging Symp; XX European Confer on Visual Perception (ECVP), Helsinki, Finland [1997]; The 12th Internat Conference on Biomagnetism Biomag2000, Espoo, Finland (with T. Katila, R. Ilmoniemi, and M. Mäki­järvi) & Chair of the Scientific Program Committee (560 conference participants) [2000]; MEG workshop, XV Internat Congress of Clinical Neurophysiol, Buenos Aires, Argentina [2001]; MEG Intensive Course, Espoo, Finland [2003]; MEG and fMRI updates symposium, Nordic Congress of Cliin Neurophysiol, Helsinki, Finland [2006]; 1-day Symposium on “Dynamical Somatosensory Receptive Fields”, Espoo, Finland [2006]; PENS Hertie Winter School on “Brain Basis of Social Interaction: From Concepts to Imaging”, Kitzbühel, Austria [2006]; BIOMAG2008, Vice-Chair of Program Committee (Japan); Attending and Neglecting People [Attention and Performance XXVI] Tuusula, Finland [2015]

 

•  Member of Sci Adv Board/Program Committee of Internat Congresses (29 times)

Internat Symp on Advanced Evoked Potentials and Related Techniques in Clinical Neurophysiology: Basic Principles and Special Applications, Rome, Italy [1989]; XXXI Internat Congress of Physiol Sci, Helsinki, Finland [1989]; 5th Internat Confer on Brain Electromagn Topogr, Münster, Germany [1994]; New Directions in Cognitive Science. An Internat Symp, Saariselkä, Finland [1995]; First Internat Confer on Funct Mapping of the Human Brain, Paris, France [1995]; Brains and Illusions. Exhibition at the 'Heureka' Science Museum, Vantaa, Finland [1995–1996]; 8th Meeting of the Internat Organiz of Psycho­physiol, Tampere, Finland [1996]; 10th Internat Confer on Biomagnetism, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA [1996]; 2nd Internat Confer on Funct Mapping of the Human Brain, Boston, USA [1996]; Third Internat Hans Berger Congr 'Quantitative and Topological EEG and MEG Analysis', Jena, Germany [1996]; 3rd Internat Confer on Funct Mapping of the Human Brain, Copenhagen, Denmark [1997]; XX European Confer on Visual Perception (ECVP), Helsinki, Finland [1997]; 9th World Congress of Psychophysiology, Taormina, Sicily, Italy [1998]; Imaging of Normal and Abnormal Brain Functions, Espoo, Finland [1998]; Temporal Aspects of Human Cortical Processing – A Finnish-Japanese Workshop, Espoo, Finland [1998]; 11th Internat Confer on Biomagnetism, Sendai, Japan [1998]; 12th Internat Confer on Biomagne­tism, Espoo, Finland [2000]; 10th Europ Congr of Clinical Neurophysiol, Lyon, France [2000]; Neuroscience in the Third Millennium, Casta, Slovenia [2002]; The Art of Reading: Texts, Pictures, Cultures. Rodin Remediation Academy. Munich, Germany [2002]; 2^nd Peter Wallenberg Foundation Symp, Stanford, USA [2002]; 6^th IBRO World Congress of Neuro­science, Prague, the Czech Republic [2003]; 7^th Portugese Conference on Biomedical Enginee­ring – bioeng’2003 [2003]; NFSI 2003, 4^th Internat Confer Noninvas Function Imaging, Chieti, Italy [2003]; 3rd Peter Wallenberg Foundation Symp, Helsinki, Finland [2004]; NCCN 2006, Nordic Congr Clin Neurophysiol, Helsinki, Finland [2006]; Developing Brain Emerging Mind, Helsinki, Finland [2007]; Biomag2010 Croatia [2009–2010]; Biomag 2012 France [2011–2012]; 4^th Internat Confer Cogn Neurodynamics Sweden [2013]; ICCN2014 Internat Conf Clin Neurophysiol Berlin, Germany [2014]

 

•  Invited speaker in international conferences and teaching courses 200 times (incl. The Nobel Centen­nial Jubilee Symposium in 2001, the Nobel Symposium “Genes, Brain, and Behavior” in 2008, and plenary/keynote talks in Forum of Europ Neurosci Societies (FENS), and in international conferences on Human Brain Mapping, Cognitive Sciences, Visual Cognition, Clinical Neuro­physiology, Hearing, Reading and Language Disorders, Biomagnetism, Psychophysiology, Pain, Epilepsy, and Audiology).

 

 

PUBLICATION ACTIVITY

https://research.aalto.fi/portal/riitta.hari.html (Aalto University Research Information System)

https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=7pA__yMAAAAJ&hl=fi (Google Scholar citations)

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/J-1880-2012 (ReseacherID citations)

•  Author of 365 original papers and 27 review articles in peer-reviewed international journals and 49 book chapters. In addition, a textbook “MEG–EEG Primer” (with Aina Puce, Oxford University Press 2017; 344 pages) and 65 papers in Finnish/Swedish and a textbook. — Papers cited (ISI Web of Science / Google Scholar; 17 Sep 2017) 24 851 / 39 628 times, most cited paper 2467 / 3872 times, H-index 88 / 111. ResearcherID: J-1880-2012. 

 

MAIN SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS

In early 1980’s, Riitta Hari pioneered the use of MEG to follow the spatiotemporal dynamics of brain activity, providing fundamental insights into auditory, somatosensory, visual, and pain and motor processing in healthy subjects and patient groups. – Hari et al. were the first to identify generation of long-latency auditory responses in the human auditory cortex (in 1980), the first to record noninvasively activity from the human SII cortex (in 1983), and the first (in 1983) to identify noninvasively human cortical projection areas involved in pain. Other pioneering observations include the neural origin of several evoked potentials and the brain rhythms (review in 1997). The observation in 1997 that rhythmic 20-Hz motor-cortex activity is coherent with motor unit firing during isometric contraction, and that the motor cortex leads in time, has led to several follow-up studies. – Hari has demonstrated the involvement of the primary motor cortex in the human "mirror-neuron system" (MNS; 1998), as well as abnormalities in the dynamics of the MNS in autistic subjects (2004). – Hari has also described two new time-sensitive illusions (auditory localization in 1995, audiotactile interaction in 1998), and she has suggested the SAS (sluggish attentional shifting) theory to explain the slowness of dyslexic subjects to perceive rapidly presented sensory stimuli (2002). More recently, she has advocated and developed “two-person neuroscience” for the study of the brain basis of social interaction, and her group was the first to combine two MEG devices for time-accurate simultaneous MEG recording of two persons (2012). In her current position as a prof. emerita at the Department of Art, Aalto University, Hari is aiming to increase interaction between art and neuroscience.