Lauri Nummenmaa#
| Membership Number: | 5805 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://emotion.utu.fi |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2497-9757 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - current Professor in modelling and medical image processing at Turku PET Centre and Department of Psychology, University of Turku
- 2016 - 2019 Associate professor in modelling and medical image processing at Turku PET Centre and Department of Psychology, University of Turku
- 2012 - 2016 Assistant professor (part time) at the Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at Aalto University.
- 2012 - 2016 Academy of Finland Fellow (part time), Turku PET Centre
- 2009 - 2012 Senior Research Scientist at Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University School of Science
- 2008 - 2009 Research Fellow (Academy of Finland) at Department of Psychology, University of Tampere,
- 2007 - 2007 Visiting Research Fellow at Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
- 2002 - 2006 Junior Lecturer, University of Turku, Department of Psychology, Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2006
Fields of Scholarship
- Biological psychology
- Social interaction
- Neurotransmission
- Experimental psychology
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Emotions
- Neuroimaging
- Positron emission tomography
Honours and Awards
- 2012 ERC Starting Grant
- 2016 Academy of Finland Award
- 2012 Alfred Kordelin prize for scientific excellence
