Marja-Leena Linne

Marja-Leena Linne (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and theoretical neuroscience from Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, in 1993 and 2001, respectively. She is currently a Principal Investigator at Tampere University, Tampere, where she leads the Computational Neuroscience Group at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology. She develops computational and mathematical methods for brain modeling and analysis of signals and images obtained in vitro and in vivo. She is a core member of the EU FET Flagship Human Brain Project. She has authored over 80 refereed interdisciplinary publications, as the first and last author both in engineering and biological topics. The focus of her research in neuroscience is on understanding the roles of neuronal and glial cells in neuronal circuits as well as in brain signals recorded from humans in health and disease.