Electroencephalography

Ivan has obtained his PhD degree at the University of Göttingen, Germany in 2016 while working as a research assistant at the Institute of Neurorehabilitation Systems at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Germany.  From 2012 until 2014 he worked for Ottobock Healthcare GmbH, Duderstadt, Germany, one of the world’s leading prosthetic manufacturers. In 2014 and 2015 he was a research fellow at the Arizona State University and the Medical University of Vienna respectively.

The group's research interests are in multi-sensor data processing systems with applications in location sensing, health and medical technology, machine learning, inverse problems, and brain imaging.

The BML uses movies, narratives, and VR to study human higher cognitive functions especially social cognition and emotions in ecologically valid stimulus and task conditions during neuroimaging. The laboratory develops new methods, in particular data-analysis approaches, hand-in-hand with the empirical work, and has been involved in translational research via collaborations.

Professor emeritus Risto Ilmoniemi is a physicist and neuroscientist working at Aalto University. He has built and designed multichannel MEG instruments and co-invented for MEG use the minimum-norm estimate, invented the signal-space projection and other mathematical methods for the forward and inverse problem, the channel-capacity measure for comparing sensor arrays, and the triangle phantom. With his co-workers, he has developed several transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) techniques such as navigated TMS (nTMS), the combined use of TMS and EEG, and multi-locus TMS.