Weiyong Xu

My name is Weiyong Xu (徐卫勇 in Chinese). I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä. I currently work on the Research Council of Finland-funded Trajectory project, led by Prof. Tiina Parviainen. From 2022 to 2025, I led the Research Council of Finland-funded postdoctoral project “The reorganization of memory representations during rest and sleep”.

In 2020, I completed my PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Jyväskylä, supervised by Prof. Jarmo Hämäläinen. My doctoral research used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate brain activity changes during audiovisual learning and integration in reading. During my doctoral training, I also worked in the European ChildBrain network (2015–2019).

Before starting my PhD in Finland, I received my master’s and bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. My master’s thesis examined functional connectivity and complex networks in the ageing brain using electroencephalography (EEG).