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Board of directors

Miia Kivipelto

MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Geriatrics at Karolinska Institutet and Imperial College London; Founder of the World-Wide FINGERS Network; Scientific Founder and Medical and Scientific Director at FINGERS Brain Health Institute

Maris Hartmanis

PhD, Professor of Biochemistry; Scientific Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of FINGERS Brain Health Institute; affiliated to Karolinska Institutet

Liselotte Jansson

Secretary General of the Swedish Alzheimer’s Foundation; Chairman of the Board of the Center for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Institutet

FBHI team

and key associated researchers

Vilma Alanko

PhD Candidate, Research Assistant

Mariagnese Barbera

PhD, Scientific Coordinator

Kia Bengtsson

Chief Operating Officer

Erika Bereczki

PhD, Research Program Manager

Makrina Daniilidou

PhD, Fluid Biomarker Specialist and Coordinator

Sigrid Eklöf

Coordinator

Jenni Lehtisalo

PhD, Scientific Coordinator

Celeste Loots

PhD, Senior Neuropsychologist

Ana Sabsil López Rocha

MD, Scientific and REDCap Coordinator, WW-FINGERS-SARS-CoV-2 project

Francesca Mangialasche

MD, PhD, Executive Director of the World-Wide FINGERS Global Scientific Coordinating Center

Anna Matton

PhD, Assistant Professor,
Fluid Biomarker Specialist

Tiia Ngandu

MD, PhD, Scientific Coordinator

Annika Norell Benson

Communications Director

Paola Padilla

MD, MMSc Public Health, Research Coordinator

Markku Peltonen

PhD, Professor, Senior Statistician

Dinithi Perera

LLM, Project Consultant

Alina Solomon

MD, PhD, Professor of Neuroepidemiology,
Scientific Coordinator

Dragos Stan

IT Specialist and Software Developer

Ruth Stephen

PhD, Neuroimaging Specialist and Coordinator

Chi Udeh-Momoh

PhD, Fluid Biomarker Specialist and
Africa-FINGERS Project Lead

Maggie Yeung Wong

PhD, Projects and Operations Manager