I am currently recruiting a PhD student to join my team at the University of Jyväskylä. The phd is part of a Research Council of Finland funded project on interoception and mental health, and will focus more specifically on stomach-brain coupling and developing interventions for changing this coupling. More information about the open position and…

Can rhythmic signals originating from inside of our body, such as those coming from the heart, lungs, and stomach, influence our motor system? In our latest paper, now out in PLOS Biology, we investigated this question by evoking motor potentials and modelling whether the phase of the visceral rhythms at the time of a TMS…

Sometimes funding results can still take an unexpected turn! To my happy surprise, after initially being placed on the reserve list, my Academy Research Fellowship has now received a positive result from the Research Council of Finland (Suomen Akatemia)! Starting next year, I will be leading a 4-year project at the University of Jyväskylä, where…

That concludes two pretty intense weeks of conference travel! Thanks to everyone who came to our ICON (International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience) symposium “State dependencies of brain-body interactions in health and disease”, featuring talks by Anke Karabanov Leah Banellis, Thomas Schreiner, Daniel Kluger and me.  Also huge thanks to the organisors of the Adriatica 2025…

We are currently recruiting Finnish-speaking participants in the Jyväskylä region to participate in a new MEG experiment!  The aim of the experiment is to better understand how the brain and internal organs communicate with each other while we listen to emotion evoking short stories. If you are curious about what it is like to participate…