We would like to warmly welcome our newest team member, Soili Marianne Lehto! Her background is in medicine, and she holds a clinical specialist degree in psychiatry. After completing her PhD in 2009, and being appointed as docent in experimental psychiatry at the University of Eastern Finland in 2010, she has worked as clinical lecturer and acting professor of psychiatry, and spent a year as a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on characterizing how mental phenomena and the physiology of the human body interact, and discovering new ways to modulate the observed interactions (www.uef.fi/mindandbrain).
As part of the Developmental Psychology Research Group, Soili is excited to resume back to a full-time research post. At the group, her interests focus on the interaction of biological and psychosocial factors during pregnancy, and the impact of these factors on child development. Aside from her passion towards science, she loves all kinds of physical exercise, travelling and good books.