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Jetro Tuulari is an Associate Professor and Docent in the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Turku, where he also serves as Research Manager in Clinical Neurosciences and Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Computing. He is the Principal Investigator of the FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab and Head of Neuroimaging at the InterLearn Centre of Excellence. He is affiliated with the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at the University of Oxford and part of the international Lifespan consortium developing human brain growth charts.
His research focuses on how early life exposures, genetics, and environmental factors shape brain structure and function, influencing long-term health and wellbeing. Using advanced neuroimaging techniques such as MRI, fMRI, dMRI, PET, and EEG, his team investigates developmental cognitive neuroscience, with emphasis on maternal health, childhood adversity, obesity, and intergenerational effects. His work bridges clinical medicine, computing, and population neuroscience, contributing to large-scale cohort studies like FinnBrain, ABCD, and the Developing Human Connectome Project.
His recent publications (2024–2025) reflect a strong trend in population neuroscience, neonatal brain development, epigenetics, and methodological innovation in neuroimaging. Key themes include maternal BMI and brain development, prenatal stress and child outcomes, transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, and AI-driven analysis of neuroimaging data in conditions like Long COVID.
- Finnish Medical Foundation
- Emil Aaltonen Foundation
- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation
- Hospital District of Southwest Finland State Research Grants
- Alfred Kordelin Foundation
- Juho Vainio Foundation
- Orion Research Foundation
He supervises a vibrant research team of post-doctoral fellows, doctoral students, and undergraduates within the FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab. He has played a key role in launching the Human Neuroscience Master’s Programme at the Turku Brain and Mind Center and coordinates courses on neuroimaging methods. His international collaborations include researchers at Oxford, Cambridge, KCL, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the University of California, Irvine.
He leads the FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab, which conducts multimodal neuroimaging analyses within the FinnBrain Birth Cohort. The lab is part of broader initiatives like InterLearn and the Lifespan consortium, focusing on synergistic data analysis, brain network modelling, and population-level neuroscience.
