Matti Hämäläinen is a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the David Cohen Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Laboratory at the Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital. He is one of the pioneers in the application of MEG in conjunction with other non-invasive functional and anatomical imaging methods to study human brain function. He has had a crucial role in developing whole-head MEG instrumentation, analytical methods and tools, as well as experimental protocols, which have together paved the way for MEG becoming an important basic research and clinical tool worldwide.
Education
PhD (Dr. Tech.), Helsinki University of Technology
Select Publications
Hämäläinen M, Hari R, Ilmoniemi R, Knuutila J, Lounasmaa OV. Magnetoencephalography – theory, instrumentation, and applications to noninvasive studies of the working human brain. Reviews of Modern Physics 1993;65:413-97.
Gramfort A, Luessi M, Larson E, Engemann DA, Strohmeier D, Brodbeck C, Parkkonen L, and Hamalainen MS. MNE software for processing MEG and EEG data. Neuroimage 2014;86:446-60.
Krishnaswamy P, Obregon-Henao G, Ahveninen J, Khan S, Babadi B, Iglesias JE, Hamalainen MS, and Purdon PL. Sparsity enables estimation of both subcortical and cortical activity from MEG and EEG. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017;114:E10465-E74.
Highlights
Innovation Prize (1992) of the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development for “Development of a whole-head MEG system”
The Finnish Engineering Award (1996) of the Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers for “Developing a magnetoencephalographic device (MEG) for scanning the entire human head and brain”
Keynote lecture: MEG as an Enabling Tool in Neuroscience – Transcending Boundaries with New Analysis Methods and Devices, at Biomag 2018, The 21st International Conference on Biomagnetism, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August, 2018.
Fellow (2019), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)