Rate My Professor Mikko Juusola

Professor Mikko Juusola is Professor in Systems Neuroscience at the School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, where he has held the position since 2013 as principal investigator of the Drosophila Vision Laboratory. He earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Neurophysiology from the University of Oulu, Finland, in 1993, followed by a Docent in Neurophysiology from the same institution in 1995. His earlier career included postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Dalhousie University, Canada, as well as positions at the University of Cambridge, UK, supported by an Academy of Finland Research Fellowship and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

Juusola’s research focuses on neural processing in the visual system of Drosophila, with emphasis on efficient codes and circuitry, form-function relationships, perception, attention, learning, memory, and cognition in small brains. He has held visiting and guest professor appointments at Beijing Normal University, China, and received recognitions including a High-End Foreign Expert appointment through the Chinese National Recruitment Program and a Jane and Aatos Erkko Research Fellowship. Key publications include works on microsaccadic sampling for hyperacute vision in Drosophila (eLife, 2017), binocular mirror-symmetric microsaccadic sampling (PNAS, 2022), and theory of morphodynamic information processing (Vision Research, 2025). His contributions advance understanding of sensory-neural circuits through combined experimental and theoretical approaches in systems neuroscience.