Elisa Kallioniemi
Assistant Professor, Bio-Medical Engineering
413 VentureLink 105 (VLK1)
About Me
Elisa Kallioniemi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Brain Stimulation Lab at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). She is a neural engineer and a brain stimulation scientist. In her research, she uses brain stimulation to develop neuroscientific methods to study the brain and approaches to modulate brain activity for therapeutic strategies for neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Professor Kallioniemi received her Bachelor’s and Master's degrees from Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering in Finland. She obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Physics (medical physics) from the University of Eastern Finland. Alongside her Ph.D., she also undertook practical clinical training in medical physics (in radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, clinical physiology, diagnostic radiology, and clinical neurophysiology). Before joining NJIT, Professor Kallioniemi was a postdoctoral researcher first in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Medicine, followed by a postdoctoral position in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.





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Education
Ph.D. ; University of Eastern Finland ; Applied Physics ; 2016

B.S. ; Aalto University ; Electronics and Electrical Engineering ; 2012

M.S. ; Aalto University ; Electronics and Electrical Engineering ; 2012

Awards & Honors

2025 2026 Foresight Institute Fellow, The Foresight Institute

2024 ASAPbio preprint review club funding, ASAPbio

2023 Senior member, IEEE

2022 Travel Award, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

2021 Cornell Rising Star, Program for Achieving Career Excellence at Cornell University

2020 Article selected to Editor’s Choice Collection for 2020, Human Brain Mapping

2020 Inaugural Rising Star in Engineering in Health, Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Engineering

2020 Travel Award, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

2020 Travel Award, North American Neuromodulation Society

2018 Travel Award, International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology

2017 Travel Award, European Chapter, International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology

2016 Graduation with Distinction (top 5% of all Ph.D. theses), University of Eastern Finland

2016 Travel Award, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

2015 Travel Award, European Chapter, International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology

2015 Young Investigator Award, Finnish Neuroradiology Society

2013 Best Poster Award, International Doctoral Program in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics

2013 Best Poster Award, Second Runner-Up, 5th International Symposium on Navigated Brain Stimulation in Neurosurgery

2025 Fall Courses
BME 333 - BIOMEDICAL SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS

BME 493 - HONORS RESEARCH THESIS I

BME 492 - RESEARCH & INDPNDNT STUDY II

BME 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

BME 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

BME 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

BME 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

BME 491 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY I

BME 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

BME 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

Past Courses
BME 210: PROCESSING FUND FOR BIOL SIGNA

BME 333: BIOMEDICAL SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS

Research Interests
Brain stimulation, neural engineering, biomarkers, neural plasticity, personalized therapeutics, neurological and psychiatric disorders

Publications:
https://www.kallioniemilab.com/publications/
Journal Article
Giuseppe Varone, Mana Biabani, Sara Tremblay, Joshua C. Brown, Elisa Kallioniemi, Nigel C. Rogasch. 2025. "The golden age of online readout: EEG-informed TMS from manual probing to closed-loop neuromodulation." NeuroImage , vol. 322 , pp. 121543.

Anna-Lisa Schuler, Martin Tik, Elisa Kallioniemi, Ana Suller Marti, Zhengchen Cai, Giovanni Pellegrino. 2025. "Approaches to map cortical excitability beyond the primary motor cortex – Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience, multimodal imaging and clinical applications." Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews , vol. 177 , pp. 106338.

Elisa Kallioniemi, Yuming Lei, Hang Jin Jo. 2025. "Editorial: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in motor control and motor rehabilitation: current trends and future directions." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , vol. 19 , pp. 1595762.

Taylor Kuhn, Aprinda Indahlastari, Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, Gregory Fonzo, Nicole Petersen, Natalie Rotstein, Timothy Davis, David Mehler, Jonathan Repple, Tim Hahn, Giacomo Bertazzoli, Nicco Regente, Adam Woods, Sabrina Halavi, Bianca Hoang Dang, Xenos Mason, Charles Laidi, Tina Chou, Marta Bortoletto, Elisa Kallioniemi, Indrit Begue, Nicholas Balderston, Eric Porges, Desmond Oathes, Venkat Subramanian, Sophia Thomopoulos, Neda Jahanshad, Paul Thompson. 2025. "The ENIGMA Neuromodulation Working Group: Goals, Challenges and Opportunities for the Field." Brain Stimulation , vol. 18 , no. 2 , pp. 142-144.

Dao TA Nguyen, Laura Säisänen, Elisa Kallioniemi, Pasi A Karjalainen, Saara M Rissanen, Petro Julkunen. "MEPFeatX –Automated Motor-Evoked Potentials Feature Extraction in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation." IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering , vol. 18 , pp. 1415257.

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Chapter
R D Weiner, M M Husain, J R Young, E Kallioniemi. "Electroconvulsive Therapy and Other Forms of Brain Stimulation." In David C. Steffens, Kristina Zdanys, eds., "In the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry," pp. 601- 642. The American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2022.

E Kallioniemi, S Määttä. "TMS-EEG." In Mervaala E, et al, eds., "Textbook of Clinical Neurophysiology," pp. 370–372. Duodecim, 2019.

E Kallioniemi, M Könönen, S Määttä. "TMS-EEG, Methods and Challenges in the Analysis of Brain Connectivity." In V. Piemonte, A. Basile, T. Ito, L. Marrelli, eds., "Biomedical Engineering Challenges," pp. 175–197. Wiley, 2018.

Professional
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, North Jersey Section
Vice-Chair , 2024

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience - Motor Neuroscience
Editor, Guest , 2024

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience - Brain Imaging and Stimulation
Editorial Review Board Member , 2023

Journal of Neuroscience Methods
Editorial Board , 2023

2024 NYC Neuromodulation Conference Scientific Committee
Committee Member , 2023

50th Northeast Bioengineering Conference
Session Chair , 2024

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience - Brain Imaging and Stimulation
Editor, Guest , 2023

Applied Sciences, Special Issue "Personalized Brain Stimulation: Advances and Challenges"
Editor, Guest , 2021