Riitta Kyllikki Hari (born 16 January 1948) is a Finnish neuroscientist, physician and professor at Aalto University.

[2] Her most significant achievements relate to the understanding of healthy and diseased human cortex development.

This involves magnetoencephalography, a process that allows for investigation of neuronal activity in the brain in a non-invasive way.

[citation needed] Her research interests are varied and cover many areas of neuroscience.

[5] Hari has been granted several prestigious awards and recognitions both abroad and in her home country of Finland, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Lisbon in 2003, the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in Switzerland in 2003,[1] the Justine and Yves Sergent Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience in Canada in 2002 and the Award for the Advancement of European Science in Germany in 1987, and the Finnish Science Award in 2009, an honorary doctorate from the University of Kuopio in 2005 and the Matti Äyräpää Prize in 2001.