19.08.2015 Docent in Animal Physiology, University of Helsinki

Current Position:

2013-present: senior scientist, group of Heikki Rauvala, Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki

research focus: neuroregeneration in CNS; spinal cord injury; functional recovery after spinal cord injury; pre-clinical research of therapetic interventions for spinal cord injury

Previous work experience 

2016-2017: post-doctoral fellow, group of Iiris Hovatta, Department of Bioscience, University of Helsinki

research focus: molecular mechanisms of anxiety-like behavior, genetics of anxiety disoders

2005-2013: post-doctoral researcher, Mouse Behavioral Unit, Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki

research focus: mutant mice behavioral phenotyping; the impact of social factors on animal behavior; gene-environment interactions in normal and pathological behavior

2001-2006: researcher, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics Russian Academy of Science

research focus: animal model of epileptogenesis; behavioral approach for early diagnostoc of epilepsy; memory progresses in epileptogenesis