Risto Ilmoniemi

Senior Advisor

T314 Dept. Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering

I have built and designed multichannel MEG instruments and invented for MEG use the minimum-norm estimate (together with Matti Hämäläinen), the signal-space projection, formulas for the forward problem, the channel-capacity measure for comparing sensor arrays, and the triangle phantom. I have developed, together with many excellent students, several transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) techniques such as navigated TMS (nTMS), the combined use of TMS and EEG, and multi-locus TMS (mTMS). I am the founder and former CEO of Nexstim Plc, the company that brought nTMS and TMS–EEG to the market. Currently, I lead the development of mTMS and hybrid MEG–MRI systems and apply these technologies for neuroscience and clinical use. Much of my effort is devoted to the development of mathematical methods for improved brain-signal analysis and for data interpretation, often involving work on the bioelectromagnetic inverse problem.

Full researcher profile

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E-post

[email protected]

Telefonnummer

+358505562964

Kompetensområde

Biodesign, Aalto Ventures Program, Human brain imaging, Applied Physics, Neurophysics, Biophysics, Electromagnetism, Bioelectromagnetism, Neuroscience, Biomedical engineering, Medical Technology, Neurotechnology, Brain imaging, Electrical impedance tomography, Functional magnetic resonance imaging, Magnetoencephalography, Electroencephalography, Brain Research, Neurostimulation, Ultra-low-field MRI, Brain stimulation, Navigated brain stimulation, Navigated TMS, Transcranial direct current stimulation, Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Brain connectivity, Brain modeling, Inverse problems, Signal analysis, SQUID magnetometers, Philosophy of mind, EEG, NIRS, TMS, NTMS, NBS, MMN, MRI, ULF MRI, MEG-MRI, MEGMRI, MEG, FMRI, EIT, M.Sc. programme Brain and Mind, BioMag Laboratory, BECS, Aalto Brain Centre (ABC), TDCS, TACS

Utmärkelser

Innovation of the Year Award

In recognition of exceptional work transferring research to innovation with both economical and societal impact.

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Dec 2017

Fellow of EAMBES (European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science)

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Jan 2015

Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Dec 2014

World Technology Award Finalist in Health & Medicine, The World Technology Network in association with TIME, Fortune, CNN, Science/AAAS, Kurzweil Technologies, and IEEE Spectrum

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Jan 2013

Fellow of ISFSI (International Society for Functional Source Imaging)

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Jan 2011

Member, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Jan 2008

Innosuomi 2004 Prize awarded by the President of Finland, Ms. Tarja Halonen, to Nexstim Ltd., a company founded and led by Risto Ilmoniemi

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Nov 2004

First prize in the invention competition organized by the Foundation for Medical Technology, Finland

Electromagnetic brain mapping device, worth 5000 FIM, Sept. 25, 1997.

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Sep 1997

Innovation Prize 1997 of the New Technology Foundation, Finland

Multichannel magnetic brain stimulator, awarded to Risto Ilmoniemi and his research team, including Jarmo Ruohonen, Juha Virtanen, Janne Kamppuri, Pekka Kähkönen and Marko Ollikainen. The award for this first prize was worth 15000 FIM, April 14, 1997

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Apr 1997

Academy professor 1.1.2012-31.12.2016 Suomen Akatemia, Finland

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Jan 2011

Publikationer

Measuring the accuracy of ICA-based artifact removal from TMS-evoked potentials

Iiris Atti, Paolo Belardinelli, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Johanna Metsomaa 2024 Brain Stimulation

A bicoherence approach to analyze multi-dimensional cross-frequency coupling in EEG/MEG data

Alessio Basti, Guido Nolte, Roberto Guidotti, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Gian Luca Romani, Vittorio Pizzella, Laura Marzetti 2024 Scientific Reports

Towards real-time EEG–TMS modulation of brain state in a closed-loop approach

Dania Humaidan, Jiahua Xu, Miriam Kirchhoff, Gian Luca Romani, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Ulf Ziemann 2024 Clinical Neurophysiology

Modeling the stress and forces on multi-channel TMS coil arrays in high-field MRI scanners

Maria A. Koponen, Juuso T. Korhonen, José A. Vilchez Membrilla, Heikki Sinisalo, Jaakko Paasonen, Clemente Cobos Sánchez, Olli Gröhn, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Victor H. Souza 2024 Physics in Medicine and Biology

Pipeline for Automatic Brain Stimulation with Real-Time Machine-Learning-Based Decoding of EEG Responses

Matilda Makkonen, Olli-Pekka Kahilakoski, Kyösti Alkio, Ivan Zubarev, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Tuomas P. Mutanen, Pantelis Lioumis 2024

Exploring Motor Network Connectivity in State-Dependent Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation : A Proof-of-Concept Study

Laura Marzetti, Alessio Basti, Roberto Guidotti, Antonello Baldassarre, Johanna Metsomaa, Christoph Zrenner, Antea D’Andrea, Saeed Makkinayeri, Giulia Pieramico, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Ulf Ziemann, Gian Luca Romani, Vittorio Pizzella 2024 Biomedicines

Towards real-time identification of large-scale brain states for improved brain state-dependent stimulation

Laura Marzetti, Saeed Makkinayeri, Giulia Pieramico, Roberto Guidotti, Antea D'Andrea, Timo Roine, Tuomas P. Mutanen, Victor H. Souza, Dubravko Kičić, Antonello Baldassarre, Maria Ermolova, Hanna Pankka, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Ulf Ziemann, Gian Luca Romani, Vittorio Pizzella 2024 Clinical Neurophysiology

Robotic–electronic platform for autonomous and accurate transcranial magnetic stimulation targeting

Renan H. Matsuda, Victor H. Souza, Thais C. Marchetti, Ana M. Soto, Olli Pekka Kahilakoski, Andrey Zhdanov, Victor H.E. Malheiro, Mikael Laine, Mikko Nyrhinen, Heikki Sinisalo, Dubravko Kicic, Pantelis Lioumis, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Oswaldo Baffa 2024 Brain Stimulation

A simulation study: comparing independent component analysis and signal-space projection – source-informed reconstruction for rejecting muscle artifacts evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Tuomas Mutanen, Ida Ilmoniemi, Iiris Atti, Johanna Metsomaa, Risto Ilmoniemi 2024 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Acoustic noise generated by TMS in typical environment and inside an MRI scanner

Mikko J. Nyrhinen, Victor H. Souza, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Fa Hsuan Lin 2024 Brain Stimulation