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Linnea Karlsson is a Professor of Population Health Research at the University of Turku, affiliated with the Centre for Population Health Research and the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, where she serves as Principal Investigator since July 2024. Her work integrates psychiatry, epidemiology, and developmental neuroscience to understand early life influences on brain and behavioral outcomes.
Research Interests: Dr. Karlsson specializes in psychiatric epidemiology, focusing on prenatal and early life stress, child and adolescent mental health, gut-brain axis development, and psychosocial development. Her research leverages longitudinal cohort data to explore how maternal and environmental factors shape neurodevelopmental trajectories.
Publication Trends: Her recent articles (2025) reflect a strong focus on neuroimaging, maternal-fetal health, epigenetics, and early behavioral development. Themes include brain structure in infants, EEG dynamics, oral health behavior, and transgenerational epigenetic effects, all within population-based frameworks.
- Scientific Leadership: Principal Investigator, FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (since 2024)
- Academic Leadership: Tenure-track position began January 2021; promoted to Professor in October 2023
Supervision and Collaboration: Dr. Karlsson supervises multidisciplinary PhD candidates across medicine and psychology, fostering collaboration in a large, multimodal research environment. She leads a team generating high-impact findings in developmental psychiatry and public health.
Laboratory & Team: She is embedded in the FinnBrain team, a large interdisciplinary group conducting multimodal assessments including neuroimaging, epigenetics, and behavioral phenotyping in a birth cohort framework.
