Heikki Nieminen
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
T314 Dept. Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Key interest: research and innovation in medical physics and biomedical engineering.
Research interests: biomedical high-intensity ultrasound applications, e.g. ultrasonic drug delivery & therapy, acoustic trapping, cancer diagnostics.
Innovation interests: new diagnostic and interventional platforms, translation of research findings into clinic via commercialization, Biodesign innovation process
Full researcher profile
Phone number
+358505019280
Honors and awards
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, € 497,000.00
Developing an ultrasonic method to overcome shortcomings of ex vivo gene therapies.
Granted funding (public project funding)
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
May 2022
Winner of pitching competition at Y Science at Slush 2021 side event
Awarded to Auroptic Medical Oy (company established after academic project Lightopsy): Pitching event Y Science at Slush side event, category: Health and Pharma; role: team leader of Aalto Part of the Lightopsy project; co-founder of Auroptic Medical Oy.<br/><br/>/fi/uutiset/auroptic-medicalille-slush-voitto
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Jan 2021
Publications
William Cailly, Raimundo Gonzalez-Diaz, Heikki J. Nieminen
2025
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Marwa Elkhashab, Goncalo Barreto, Maxime Fauconnier, Yohann Le Bourlout, Laura B. Creemers, Heikki J. Nieminen, Kenneth A. Howard
2025
Drug Delivery
Maxime Fauconnier, Bhuvaneshwari Karunakaran, Alex Drago-Gonzalez, William S. Y. Wong, Robin H. A. Ras, Heikki J. Nieminen
2025
Nature Communications
Juliana Harkki, Pauli Tuovinen, Veikko Jousmäki, Goncalo Barreto, Pekka Rapeli, Jussi Palomäki, Jonne Annevirta, Anna-Helena Puisto, Francis McGlone, Heikki Nieminen, Hannu Alho
2025
Alcohol
Jussi Kiviluoto, Maxime Fauconnier, Heikki J. Nieminen
2025
Scientific Reports
Minna Rehell, Yohann Le Bourlout, Jetta Kelppe, Jaana Rautava, Emanuele Perra, Jouni Rantanen, Gösta Ehnholm, Nick Hayward, Kristofer Nyman, Kenneth P.H. Pritzker, Jussi Tarkkanen, Timo Atula, Heikki J. Nieminen, Katri L.S. Aro
2025
Scientific Reports
Alex Drago-González, Maxime Fauconnier, Bhuvaneshwari Karunakaran, William S.Y. Wong, Robin H.A. Ras, Heikki J. Nieminen
2024
Advanced Science
Yohann Le Bourlout, Minna Rehell, Jetta Kelppe, Jaana Rautava, Emanuele Perra, Jouni Rantanen, Gösta Ehnholm, Nick Hayward, Kristofer Nyman, Kenneth P.H. Pritzker, Jussi Tarkkanen, Timo Atula, Katri Aro, Heikki J. Nieminen
2024
ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Sanjeev Ranjan, Stef Bosch, Hannamari Lukkari, Johanna Schirmer, Niina Aaltonen, Heikki J. Nieminen, Vesa Pekka Lehto, Arto Urtti, Tatu Lajunen, Kirsi Rilla
2024
Nanomaterials
Axi Holmström, Antti Meriläinen, Jere Hyvönen, Anton Nolvi, Tuomo Ylitalo, Kari Steffen, Robert Björkenheim, Gustav Strömberg, Heikki J. Nieminen, Ivan Kassamakov, Jukka Pajarinen, Leena Hupa, Ari Salmi, Edward Hæggström, Nina C. Lindfors
2023
Scientific Reports