Colleagues working on the project
PhD Jari Hyttinen, Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology at Tampere University, Finland, has over 25 years of experience in developing biosignal measurement and analysis, especially computer modeling of physiological and biological systems. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Tasmania, and Duke University, and a visiting professor at the University of Wollongong in 2017 and ETH Zurich in 2018. He has served as, e.g., President of the European Alliance on Medical and Biological Engineering Sciences (EAMBES) from 2015 to 2017 and Chair of the EAMBES Fellows from 2017 to 2020. During his career, he has coordinated several large domestic and international research projects and has also been involved in innovations, commercialization, and start-ups. Professor Hyttinen’s laboratory develops novel computer simulations (in-silico) on cellular biophysics, body-on-chip technologies, and in-vitro 3D imaging methods for future personalized medicine. His laboratory has produced over 300 scientific journal papers and several patents.
Mark van Gils is Professor of Digital Healthcare, leading the research group Decision Support for Health, at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology at Tampere University. His over 25-year career in health data analysis has developed from AI-driven patient monitoring research during the 1990’s to a wide scope of research and research leadership activities (including Research Professorship) in the area of digital health at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, and in an Adjunct Professorship at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. During his career, he has worked tightly with renowned university hospitals and health tech companies, and he has obtained extensive experience in coordinating multi-disciplinary international research projects (co-ordinator of 2 FP7 projects and 1 EU PerMed project). He has co-authored over 200 research papers.
Pedro A. Moreno-Sánchez received the B.S. degree in telecommunication engineering, the M.S. degree in telemedicine and bioengineering, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, in 2007, 2008, and 2014, respectively. Since 2022, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Tampere University, Finland. His research interests include digital health and in the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop clinical prediction models. Currently, his research area is centered in explainable and trustworthy AI in healthcare.
Mohamadamin Forouzandehmehr
Postdoctoral researcher,
ScD in Biomedical Eng.,
MS in Mechanical Eng.
Dr. Amin Forouzandehmehr is a researcher at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology of Tampere University. His top fields of expertise include Biomedical Engineering, Systems Biology, Mechanical Engineering, Biomathematics, Simulation, and Optimization. He is actively engaged in studies concerning mathematical modeling of cardiac electro-mechano-energetic coupling at the cellular level in control and diseased conditions, including mutation-specific hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and ischemia.
Nicole Anderton
Postdoctoral researcher, D.Sc. (Biomedical Engineering),
M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering)
I am a recently graduated postdoctoral research fellow, currently working in the Medicine and Health Technology faculty at Tampere University. While my current field is computational biophysics, I have a diverse background. My DSc centred around the field of medical ultrasound and predicting the behaviour of contrast agents under varying ultrasound conditions. I have previous project experience in EEG signal processing, as well as in data management and acquisition in industry.
I am a postdoctoral research fellow working on non-invasive, computational analysis methods of cardiac myocytes.
Technical coordinator of the EU-funded SMASH-HCM project.
Fields of expertise: Quantification of biomedical images and videos, data analysis, machine learning
Main positions of trust: Chair of Postdoc Community in Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
Mission statement: Improving in vitro cell culture analysis methods for non-invasive and label-free analysis and continuous monitoring.
Research topics: Quantification of cardiomyocyte contractility; Brightfield microscopy -based methods for structural and functional assessments; Deep learning-based image assays
Nabid Faiem is a doctoral researcher in the Decision Support for Health Group at Tampere University. His research interests focus on multi-modal health data analysis. Previously, he worked as a research assistant in the same group and worked as data and algorithm specialist in a different startup company.
Antti Kallonen
Project Manager, Doctoral Researcher, M.Sc (Tech) in Software Engineering
Antti Kallonen is a Project Manager within the Decision Support for Health research group at Tampere University. He has extensive background in the development of safety-critical software systems in the industry, complemented by a broad understanding of various artificial intelligence methods. His expertise spans from exploratory analytics to multimodal deep learning. Antti has applied AI models and solutions within hospital settings, with his primary research focus on the application of AI in the critical care medicine.
Annariina Koivu
Project Manager, PhD in Global Health, M.Sc in Global Health and Public Policy.
Annariina Koivu works as SMASH-HCM Project Manager at Research and Innovation Services in Tampere University. She has extensive background in global health and health information systems, coupled with project management training.