Irina Ignatova

Irina Ignatova is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. Her research focuses on the electrophysiology and biophysics of visual systems across diverse species, including insects and mammals, with particular emphasis on photoreceptor function and retinal physiology.

Her primary research interests center on visual neuroscience, investigating phototransduction mechanisms, light adaptation, and information coding in photoreceptors. She examines electrophysiological adaptations in diurnal and nocturnal species, quantum bump dynamics, and the role of specific proteins like Frmpd1 in retinal function. Her work integrates experimental electrophysiology with computational modeling to understand visual signal processing across evolutionary contexts.

Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals a consistent trajectory in visual neuroscience, with increasing focus on mammalian retina systems since 2020 while maintaining comparative studies of insect vision. Key trends include the investigation of retinal pigment epithelium electrophysiology, molecular mechanisms of phototransduction, and information-theoretic approaches to neural coding. Her research bridges cellular biophysics with systems-level visual processing across multiple model organisms.

She is affiliated with the visual neuroscience research group within Aalto University's Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, contributing to Finland's growing expertise in sensory biology and neural engineering.