Miika Nieminen

Miika Nieminen

University of Oulu

Miika T. Nieminen (born 1974) received his Ph.D. in 2002 in medical physics at University of Kuopio, Finland, on Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Articular Cartilage: Structural, Compositional and Functional Characterization of Normal, Degraded and Engineered Tissue. He is Professor of Medical Physics at University of Oulu and Chief Physicist at Oulu University Hospital, Finland. He is vice-chair of the Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, University of Oulu, Finland. Formerly, he has conducted research also at Harvard University, USA. His principal research focus is on the development of medical imaging methods for tissue characterization, including the development of both quantitative magnetic resonance imaging methods and computed tomography methods using novel x-ray detectors and image reconstruction strategies. Under the FAME flagship, he wishes to serve as an advocate to bring novel technologies close to the clinical end-users for the benefit of the patient.