Vesa Kiviniemi MD, PhD

Vesa Kiviniemi is a Professor at Oulu University Hospital. He has been a European pioneer in detecting functional brain phenomena from the spontaneously acting brain with fMRI. He collaborated with resting-state guruji Biswal in MCW, Milwaukee from 1999-to 2001. He was the first to separate functional brain areas with independent component analysis FastICA with Aapo Hyvärinen in 2000.

Currently, his OFNI group is developing multimodal brain imaging with ultra-fast MREG sequences using 3T Siemens SKYRA with Academy of Finland and CSTI SHOK WP302 funding since 2008. The focus of the research is detecting more advanced neuroimaging tools for detecting dynamics of spontaneous brain activity together with Pierre LeVan from Freiburg Germany, Shella Keilholz from Emory US, and Yu-Feng Zang from Hangzhou China.

Matias Palva and Mikko Sams's groups from Helsinki University and Aalto University have enabled the latest technical and analytical tools for research. He's been lucky to join forces with several Oulu University Hospital Departments (Anesthesiology, Psychiatry (Adult & Child), Neurology (Adult & Pediatric), Oncology, and Neurosurgery). Depts of Optoelectronics and Computer Science have been invaluable collaborators from Oulu University.