Hanna Karjalainen

Hanna Karjalainen works as a university lecturer at the Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology at the University of Oulu. She teaches courses in the biomedical engineering program (Biomateriaalien ja biomekaniikan perusteet, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering) and conducts research in Mikko Finnilä's research group.

She defended her doctoral dissertation in 2025 in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu. She worked as a doctoral researcher in Prof. Simo Saarakkala's research group (Diagnostics of Osteoarthritis) in the years 2019-2025. During her doctoral research, she studied smart 3D nanobiomaterials for the cartilage tissue engineering applications.

She received her MSc. at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Tampere University of Technology. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant in Assist. Prof. Oommen P. Oommen's group (Bioengineering and Nanomedicine group) in the years 2017-2018. She was studying extracellular matrix mimetic hydrogels, engineered nanoparticles and their effect on cellular behaviour.