Anu Wartiovaara (née Suomalainen; born 1966) is a Finnish neuroscience and biomedical researcher, holding the Sigrid Jusélius Professorship of clinical molecular medicine at the University of Helsinki, specialising in mitochondrial disorders.
[2] In 2007, Wartiovaara was elected as a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
[3] In 2013, she was elected as member of the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO.
[4] In 2021, the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim [fi] awarded Wartiovaara the Matti Äyräpää Prize for her work on mitochondrial diseases.
[6] She gained an MD and PhD from the University of Helsinki, with postdoctoral research at the National Public Health Institute of Finland and McGill University of Canada.