Pekka Hänninen

Professor, Dean, Inventor

Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland

About

From ideas to practice... Scientific ideas rarely count as innovations - to become an innovation the idea needs a market, funding, the right people to believe in it and to push it through and still with the right recipe, success is difficult to achieve and needs full dedication from your multidisciplinary team of business and R&D people.

Experience

  • Dean at Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku
    Aug 2019 - Present · 7 yrs

  • Chairman of the Board at Paavo Nurmi Centre
    Jan 2011 - Present · 15 yrs 7 mos

    Paavo Nurmi Centre is a Non-Profit Centre in Sports Medicine

  • Turun yliopisto - University of Turku (24 yrs)
    • Professor
      2005 - Present · 21 yrs 7 mos

      Medical Physics and Engineering

    • Vice Dean
      2007 - 2012 · 5 yrs

      Infrastructure management

    • Professor (acting), Director of Research
      Aug 2002 - May 2005 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Medical Physics and Engineering

  • Vice Chair at Turku Bioimaging
    2009 - Present · 17 yrs 7 mos

    A network of excellence in Bioimaging - and education of Biomedical Imaging

  • Aqsens Health (16 yrs 1 mo)
    • Scientific Board Chairman
      May 2021 - Jul 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    • Advisor and Co-founder
      Jul 2009 - Jul 2025 · 16 yrs 1 mo

      Co-founder, Board member