Marko Vauhkonen

University of Eastern Finland

Marko Vauhkonen received his PhD (“Electrical impedance tomography and prior information”) in physics in 1997 at the University of Kuopio, Finland. After graduation, he worked as a researcher and research director at the same university, until moving to Germany in 2006. There he worked as a Marie-Curie Research Fellow for two years at the Philips Research GmbH, Aachen. During 2008–2009 Vauhkonen worked as a CTO in a spin-off company Numcore Ltd. until starting in his current position as a professor at the University of Kuopio (currently University of Eastern Finland), Department of Applied Physics (currently Department of Technical Physics), in 2009. His research interests include inverse problems, time-varying reconstruction, process tomography and medical imaging such as PET, SPECT and MRI. He has published more than 120 scientific journal articles. In FAME, there is a focus on fostering closer collaboration with the stakeholders of the flagship, particularly with the companies involved in the FAME projects.