Marja-Leena Linne

Marja-Leena Linne is a Finnish neuroscientist whose work focuses on neuron–glia interactions and the multiscale mechanisms of synaptic transmission, plasticity, and learning. She leads the Computational Neuroscience Group at Tampere University, where she integrates electrophysiology, biophysics/biochemistry, computational modeling, and machine learning to study brain function across scales. Linne has contributed to major European neuroscience infrastructures, including the Human Brain Project, and continues to support the development of EBRAINS through collaborative work on brain modelling, simulation, and tool development spanning single-cell to whole-brain scales. She has played a key role in advancing glioscience by creating computational methods and frameworks for studying neuron-astrocyte-vasculature communication. Linne is also the founder of the Baltic-Nordic Summer School in Neuroinformatics, which has trained more than 500 students and strengthened the regional neuroscience community.