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…

I recently received the very good news that I have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship to pursue a two-year project at the University of Jyväskylä. During the project, named INTERSTATE, I will be diving into the question of state-dependence of interoception, i.e. when does the brain couple more strongly to the internal organs.…

I’m very happy to share that as of May 1st I have started a new position at the university of Jyväskylä in beautiful Finland. I’ll be working here as part of the DIGIMIND project led by Tiina Parviainen, in which we’ll investigate neurophysiological markers of wellbeing. The project will combine measures such as EEG with the multiple physiological recordings,…

I will be joining a panel discussion on how to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in cognitive science on March 7th. The event is organised by Women In Cognitive Science Europe and free for everyone to join! More information can be found here.

The heart, lungs, and stomach all contract in their own distinct rhythms and continuous information about these rhythms is send to the brain. This ‘sensing of our internal world’ (or interoception) is tightly intertwined with how we sense and perceive the external world (exteroception). Through which pathways might such an influence take place? How far…

The study of emotional consciousness and its neural correlates taps into many fascinating questions, such as whether emotions can be unconscious, if animals are able to experience emotions similar to humans, and how exactly emotions are represented in the brain. How one would answer these questions depends on who you are asking, and the various…