Professor and internationally renowned expert in applying cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) methods on large macromolecular complexes. Huiskonen’s research centres on the structures and interactions of endogenous protein assemblies relevant to human health, with a particular emphasis on gap junctions. His work utilises structural biology methods, proteomics and high-content imaging to advance our understanding of these assemblies that are critical to cell-cell communication. Huiskonen is internationally recognised for the Localized Reconstruction cryo-EM data analysis method, which has been pivotal in determining the structures of numerous flexible macromolecular assemblies, including the first nearly complete genome structure of a dsRNA virus they published in Nature in 2019. Huiskonen is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Alongside running his research group, Huiskonen is the Director of the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Helsinki.