Riitta Hari
Riitta Kyllikki Hari (born January 16, 1948 in Mikkeli ) is a Finnish neuroscientist . She is a professor emeritus at Aalto University in Espoo .
Hari earned an MD in 1974 and a Ph.D. in 1980. at the University of Helsinki . In 1981 she became a specialist in clinical neurophysiology and since 1983 she has lectured in this subject at the University of Helsinki. From 1991 to 1996 and from 1999 to 2004, Hari held a research professorship at the Academy of Finland . From 2004 to 2007 she was Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Helsinki.
Since 1982, Hari has headed the brain research unit at the Institute of Low Temperature Physics (formerly headed by Olli Lounasmaa , after whom the institute is named today) at the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University ). Since 2010 she also held a research professorship at the Academy of Finland. In 2016 she retired .
Hari is considered a pioneer in the use of magnetoencephalography . She recorded the spatial and temporal activity pattern of the brain while solving realistic tasks. You gain fundamental insights into the complex dynamics of brain activity in sensory and motor stimuli in healthy people and patients. Hari was able to show the existence of mirror neurons and that there are deviations in this system in autistic people . More recent work deals with two-person neuroscience - the study of brain function during social interaction .
Hari received the Körber European Science Prize in 1987 , the Louis Jeantet Prize in 2003 and the Olav Thon Foundation Prize in 2018 . She has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1993, a member of the Academy of Finland since 1994 and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2004 . In 2002 she became Knight First Class of the Finnish Order of the White Rose . She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Lisbon (2003) and the University of Kuopio (2005).
Hari is married and has two children.
Fonts
- Riitta Hari, Aina Puce: MEG-EEG PRIMER . Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2017. ISBN 0-19-049777-7 .
Web links
- Riitta Hari at Aalto University (tkk.fi)
- CV (PDF, 188 kB) at the Academy of Finland (aka.fi)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Körber Prize Winner until 2004 at the Körber Foundation (koerber-stiftung.de); accessed on May 10, 2019.
- ^ The 2003 Louis Jeantet Prize Winners at the Louis Jeantet Foundation (jeantet.ch); Retrieved May 5, 2012
- ^ Riitta Hari at the Academia Europaea (ae-info.org); Retrieved May 5, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hari, Riitta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hari, Riitta Kyllikki; Hari, Riitta K. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish neuroscientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mikkeli |