I’m a human researcher specialized in education, minorities, work and organization psychology, and security research. My broader academic interests are in modern quantitative social research, e.g., latent factor models and structural equation modeling, as well as open science and reproducibility. My free time is spent watching RuPaul’s Drag Race, producing documentary films, and hobby programming.

Education

University of Jyväskylä | Jyväskylä, Finland
Ph.D. in Psychology | 2025 - current
Thesis topic: Inappropriate and violent behaviour in the emergency services, and its connections to burnout syndrome and intention to quit

Åbo Akademi University | Turku, Finland
M.Soc.Sc. in Sociology | 2018 - 2020
Thesis topic: Epistemic legitimation of university disciplinary boundaries in Finnish university students
B.Soc.Sc. in Sociology | 2015 - 2018
Thesis topic: Gender and ethnicity processes in the online role-playing game World of Warcraft

Academic Achievements

Research
Teaching

Experience

Specialist | Finnish Ministry of the Interior
Helsinki, Finland
Full-time, civil servant
2025 - current

Researcher | Pelastusopisto - Emergency Services Academy Finland
Kuopio, Finland
Full-time, civil servant
2022 - 2025

Doctoral Researcher | Åbo Akademi University
Turku, Finland
Full-time, grant-funded
2020 - 2024

Research Assistant
The Westermarck Society ry, Turku, Finland (2021)
Finnish National Emergency Academy, Kuopio, Finland (2020 - 2021)
Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland (2019, 2020)

Languages

Swedish - native
Finnish - excellent/bilingual
English - excellent
German - beginner
Norwegian/Scandinavian - beginner
Latin - beginner

Public Service and Third Sector Activities

Finnish Union of University Researchers | Helsinki, Finland
Member of the Young Researchers Committee (2023 - current)

The Sociological Association at Åbo Akademi University | Turku, Finland
Chair of the board (2020, 2023 - current)
Member of the anniversary gala committee (2021)
Secretary and PR manager (2019)

Porvoo Youth Council1 | Porvoo, Finland
Elected youth council member, constituency Borgå Gymnasium (2015)
Youth representative in the Porvoo municipal council Swedish educational section (2015)

Technical Skills

Programming: R | C++ | Rust | Python | HTML | CSS

Media production: Photoshop | Lightroom | Premiere Pro | After Effects | Audition | DaVinci Resolve

Statistical software: SPSS | R | Excel | FACTOR | GraphViz | SocNetV

Other

Member of the documentary production group Pakopiste Productions2 (2020 - current)
Lecturer in English and German language at Borgå Gymnasium3 upper comprehensive school, single lectures (2016)
Freelancer in video production (2015 - 2021)

Footnotes

  1. Page in Finnish and Swedish↩︎

  2. Page in Finnish↩︎

  3. Page in Swedish↩︎