Reetta Kälviäinen is the Full Professor and Chair of Neurology in the University of Eastern Finland and the Director of the Kuopio Epilepsy Center in the Kuopio University Hospital. She leads an active clinical epilepsy research group and large epilepsy biomarker study in Kuopio. She serves in the executive committee of the European Reference Network for rare and complex epilepsies EpiCARE (of which Kuopio Epilepsy Center is a full member) and in the management group of the Epilepsy Scientific Panel of the European Academy of Neurology. She is the member of the board of the Neurocenter Finland. She has been active in patient-public-involvement activities and is an honorary president of the Finnish Epilepsy Association.