Elisa Kallioniemi

Assistant Professor, Bio Medical Engineering
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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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
2026 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
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 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
BME 333 - BIOMED SIGN, SYS, & DATA ANLYS
BME 491 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY I
BME 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
BME 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
BME 210: PROCESSING FUND FOR BIOL SIGNA
BME 333: BIOMEDICAL SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
BME 698: ST: NO DATA EXPLORATION
Brain stimulation, neural engineering, biomarkers, neural plasticity, personalized therapeutics, neurological and psychiatric disorders

Publications:
https://www.kallioniemilab.com/publications/
V Kekkonen, E Fonsén, Elisa Kallioniemi, L Säisänen, T Tolmunen, M Könönen, P Kivimäki, S Määttä. 2026. "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Combined With Electroencephalography Analysis Suggest Time-Dependent and Region-Specific Modulation of Cortical Excitability During Acute Alcohol Intoxication.." Alcohol, clinical & experimental research, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. e70407.
E Kinnunen, L Säisänen, H Gröhn, E A Haapala, T A Lakka, S Määttä, Elisa Kallioniemi. 2026. "The Associations of Grey Matter Thickness and White Matter Parameters on Corticospinal Excitability in Adolescence: A Navigated TMS Study.." Brain topography, vol. 39, no. 5.
Nguyen DTA, Elisa Kallioniemi, P Julkunen, S M Rissanen, P A Karjalainen. 2026. "Coil Orientation in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Affects Motor-evoked Potential Size more than its Timing or Waveform Shape.." Brain topography, vol. 39, no. 5.
U Ziemann, Y Bai, F M Baumer, M M Beck, P Belardinelli, D Belvisi, S Bender, T O Bergmann, M Bortoletto, S Casarotto, E Casula, A R Chaves, D C de Andrade, A Conte, Z J Daskalakis, F Farzan, F Ferrarelli, P B Fitzgerald, P C Gordon, C Grefkes, S Harquel, J C Hernandez-Pavon, A T Hill, K E Hoy, F C Hummel, P Julkunen, Elisa Kallioniemi, C J Keller, V K Kimiskidis, M Kirkovski, G Koch, G Leodori, P Lioumis, S Määttä, I Maidan, M Massimini, A Mengel, J Metsomaa, C Miniussi, T P Mutanen, Y Noda, R A Ozdemir, E Raffin, L Rocchi, N C Rogasch, M Rosanova, E Santarnecchi, S Sarasso, S M Schabrun, M M Shafi, H R Siebner, E A Tolner, L Tomasevic, S Tremblay, C Tscherpel, D Veniero, V Versace, D Voineskos, S Vucic, A Zangen, C Zrenner, R J Ilmoniemi. 2026. "Clinical utility and prospective of TMS-EEG: Updated review from an international expert group.." Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 184, pp. 2111487.
Unal Sakoglu, Martin Dietz, Elisa Kallioniemi. 2026. "Editorial: Exploring neuromodulation and neuroimaging techniques for psychiatric disorders: insights from preclinical and clinical studies." Front Hum Neurosci, vol. 20, pp. 1790803.
Shihao Yang, Zirui Wen, Wenxin Zhan, Neel Fotedar, Yen-Cheng Shih, Jun-En Ding, Danilo Bernardo, Elisa Kallioniemi, Alexander G Weil, Xiying Huang, Felix Rosenow, Hai Sun, Yo-Tsen Liu, Shasha Wu, Feng Liu. 2026. "Knowledge graph representation of the mappings between seizure semiology and epileptogenic zones." Scientific Reports.
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.
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