Riitta Salmelin#
| Membership Number: | 2171 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2002 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://people.aalto.fi/riitta_salmelin |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006-2011 Academy Professor, Academy of Finland
- 2002- Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- 2001- Leading research scientist, BRU, LTL, HUT, Finland
- 1995-2000 Senior research scientist, Academy of Finland
- 1991-1995 Senior research scientist, Brain Research Unit, LTL, HUT, Finland
- 1982-1990 Research scientist, Low Temperature Laboratory (LTL), HUT, Finland
- 1989 Doctor of Technology, Physics, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Cortical rhythmic activity
- Neuroimaging of language perception and production
- Normal language function and language disorders
- Interareal functional connectivity
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Multimodal imaging
- Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2002 Member of Academia Rodinensis Pro Remediatione
- 2009 Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2000 Wiley Young Investigator Award, Organization for Human Brain Mapping
- 2003 Philips Nordic Prize for Research on Neurodevelopmental Disorders
