Development of new radiotracers for brain research and for studying nanoparticle mediated drug delivery with positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission tomography (SPECT).

Teaching at courses: Radiopharmaceutical chemistry, Radionuclide production and tracer techniques, and Organic chemistry I.

Current position:

Group leader in Radiopharmaceutical chemistry (since 2008)

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), University of Kuopio, Finland, Major subject: Biochemistry, Research field: Chemistry in Biosciences (2003). Topic of the doctoral dissertation: New tropane analogues as potential brain imaging agents: Synthesis, conformational study and in vitro/in vivo evaluation.

Docent in Radiochemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland (2011).

Post-doctoral research positions:

Vrije Universiteit, Radionuclidencentrum/Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum, Nucleaire Geneeskunde en PET Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2002 - 2004).

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Stockholm, Sweden (2005- 2006).

University of Helsinki, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Radiochemistry (Academy of Finland, Postdoctoral researcher´s project: 2007 - 2009, Academy research fellow 2010 - 2016).