Graduate School "Functional Research in Medicine"

The Graduate School offers a high-level research environment and excellent facilities for its graduate students to work at the front end of research, supports research work aiming at doctoral dissertation, and promotes clinical and technological applications of biomedical engineering and physics. In addition, the Graduate School promotes efficient use of the resources, brings synergy advantages in teaching, and reduces overlap in research work. In particular, mobility of the graduate students is supported both in Finland and abroad.

The Graduate School is funded by the Ministry of Education and the Academy of Finland. The Graduate School was started in 1995 with five full-time graduate student positions, in collaboration between Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Helsinki University Central Hospital, and University of Helsinki. At the beginning of 1998, the Universities of Kuopio, Oulu and Turku joined the Graduate School. The number of researcher positions in 2003-2006 is five.

Participating institutions (Press the logos to go to the university home pages):

	Helsinki University of Technology Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Electronics Laboratory		Helsinki University Central Hospital BioMag Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, and Department of Radiology
	University of Helsinki Cognitive Brain Research Unit		University of Kuopio Department of Applied Physics
	University of Turku Laboratory of Biophysics		University of Oulu Department of Physical Sciences / Biophysics and Department of Medical Technology

The Graduate School is administrated by the Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of HUT. The leader of the Graduate School is Professor Toivo Katila, and the coordinators are M.Sc. Heikki Väänänen and Lic.Sc. Juha Koikkalainen. Each participating insitution is represented in the board of the Graduate School. The board makes decisions on common matters of the Graduate School, including the graduate student positions, new study courses, and travel grants.

Open researcher positions

Fields of interest

• Functional Imaging in Medicine:
  MEG, EEG, MCG, ECG, fMRI, TMS, NIRS, SPECT
• Inverse Problems in Biomedical Engineering
• Molecular Biophysics
• Medical Physics

Special Courses

For these events and courses, the members of the Graduate School may submit applications to the board of the Graduate School for

• partial financial support for participation costs,
• accepting the participation for an educational event (1-2 credit units).

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Students

Travel grants

Dissertations

To the home page of the Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering