Aalto Brain Centre
Aalto Brain Centre (ABC) is a thematic center formed by research teams of several departments of the Aalto University School of Science.
ABC aims to stimulate synergy and collaboration in research on systems-level neuroscience, neuroimaging, and neurotechnology, including deep questions of human brain function as well as development of clinical applications, novel instrumentation, and sophisticated data analysis.
Aalto Brain Centre supports networking, international cooperation, training and workshops, researcher mobility and scholarly visits. Extended multidisciplinary coalitions are preferred over single-group projects.
In ABC, resources will be allocated to research creating added value. The criteria include scientific excellence, relevance to neuroscience and neurotechnology, and a credible and committed team. In addition, ABC will allocate the resources to existing and new research projects within Aalto, eliminating bottlenecks from research by, for example, providing bridge funding and augmenting existing funding to guarantee efficient use of imaging resources within Aalto.
ABC will also advance efficient use of the Aalto NeuroImaging infrastructures, participate in teaching, endorse communication between the research teams, as well as reach out to the wider Aalto community and the society.
The presenters in the ABC seminars include researchers from different departments and schools within Aalto as well as visitors. The ABC seminar thus acts as a meeting point for scientists working in the fields of neuroscience and neurotechnology and thus facilitates fortunate strokes of serendipity.
Director and the Executive Board
ABC is lead by Prof. Lauri Parkkonen together with an executive board whose current members are:
- Professor Synnöve Carlson (attention and memory)
- Professor Risto Ilmoniemi (brain imaging and stimulation technologies)
- Professor Samuel Kaski (machine learning for neuroscience)
- Professor Riitta Salmelin (imaging neuroscience)
- Professor Mikko Sams (cognitive neuroscience)
Lauri Parkkonen, Professor
tel. +358 40 508 9712
lauri.parkkonen@aalto.fi
Visiting address:
Rakentajanaukio 2 C, room F351
FI-02150 ESPOO, FINLAND
ABC Seminars
Stimulating neuroscience synergies and collaboration across departments at the School of Science.
Events
Measuring What We Mean: Neural Properties and the Tools That Stand In for Them
Daniele Marinazzo (Ghent University) will discuss the conceptual tension between the neural properties we aim to characterize and the statistical or mathematical tools we use as proxies for them, highlighting how generative modeling and forward simulation can help clarify which claims about neural mechanisms our measurements can actually support.
Understanding viral tropism and neuroinflammation using whole brain imaging
Welcome to our ABC Seminars! This time, Anna Överby Wernstedt (Umeå University) will discuss how whole-brain imaging can reveal where neurotropic viruses spread in the brain and how the immune system responds to infection, helping to uncover the factors that shape neuroinvasion and neuroinflammation.
13th Science Factory: TMS–EEG Summer School and Workshop
The Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at Aalto University School of Science will organize the 13th Science Factory: TMS–EEG Summer School and Workshop, on June 1st – 6th, 2027. The main venue this year is Hotel Nuuksio at the beautiful Nuuksio National Park in rural Espoo, Finland. Science Factory gives researchers starting out in the field of TMS–EEG an opportunity to deepen their understanding and network with top researchers within the international TMS–EEG community.