Sari Karppinen
About me
I gained my PhD (Molecular Medicine) from the University of Eastern Finland in 2017. While doing my PhD-research, I also worked at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand for seven years.
We returned to Finland early 2020, and was hired to work as an account manager for Neurocenter Finland (www.neurocenterfinland.fi), which was still in its establishment phase. I was closely involved in establishing Tampere Brain & Mind in 2021, which was aimed to ease collaboration between researchers at Tampere University and Tampere University Hospital.
Responsibilities
I work as a Commercialisation specialist at a Business Finland-funded Research-to-Business - project "Integrated Sensor for Indoor Environmental Condition Monitoring".
My main tasks are evaluating the commercial potential of a research-based innovation, and initiating its commercialisation.