Degrees
PhD (in theoretical philosophy) 15.9.2015, University of Helsinki. Changing Research Communities: Essays on Objectivity and Relativism in Contemporary Cultural Research. Grade: pass with distinction. Opponent: Alison Wylie.
MA (in theoretical philosophy) 2005, University of Helsinki.
Title of Docent, 9.6.2021, Practical philosophy, University of Helsinki.
Other education and expertise
2012–2014 Program of creative writing, Critical Academy, Helsinki.
Professional translator.
Language skills
Mother tongue: Finnish.
Other languages: Highly proficient in spoken and written English. Capable of translating books from French and Italian. Basic skills in German and Swedish.
Current employment
Academy of Finland Research Fellow. Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki.
Previous work experience
2021–22 Senior lecturer. Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University.
2020 Senior research fellow. Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University.
Senior lecturer. Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University.
2019 Senior research fellow. Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University.
2016–19 Academy of Finland post-doctoral researcher. Theoretical philosophy, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki.
2016 Post-doctoral researher; personal grant from Emil Aaltonen Foundation.
Writer; grant from Kone Foundation together with Tomi Kokkonen.
2015 Coordinator, BizTech project, University of Helsinki.
Post-doctoral researher; personal grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
2014 Writer; personal grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
2013 Doctoral student, personal grant from the University of Helsinki.
2012–2013 Freelance translator.
2008–2012 Doctoral student, personal grant from the Kone Foundation.
2005–2008 Freelance translator.
Research funding and grants
2022 Academy of Finland. Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. Project Objectivity in Contexts. 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2027. PI: Inkeri Koskinen.
2022 The Emil Aaltonen Foundation. Project: Pseudoscience in Finnish Work Life. 1.1.2023–31.12. 2025. PI: Inkeri Koskinen
2018 Academy of Finland. Member of the research team in the project Cognitive and Social Diversity in Science: An Epistemic Assessment. 01.09.2018 – 31.08.2022. PI: Kristina Rolin.
2016 Academy of Finland. Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. Project: A New Problem of Demarcation: Democratisation of Science as a Challenge to Objectivity. 01.09.2016 – 31.08.2019. PI: Inkeri Koskinen.
2016 Academy of Finland. Member of the research team in the project Interdisciplining the university – Prospects for sustainable knowledge production. 01.09.2016 – 31.08.2020. PI: Mikko Salmela.
2016 Emil Aaltonen Foundation. For postdoctoral research on the democratisation of science as a challenge to objectivity.
2015 The Finnish Cultural Foundation. For postdoctoral research.
2013 The Finnish Cultural Foundation. For the writing of a book on pseudohumanities and demarcation.
2007–2011 Kone Foundation. Yearly research grants.
Teaching and supervision
2023. PI of the project Pseudoscience in Finnish Work Life, with a research team of three doctoral students and one post doc.
2023 Currently principal supervisor of two doctoral students, University of Helsinki and Tampere University.
2023 Currently principal supervisor of two masters theses students, Tampere University.
2022 Principal supervisor of two masters theses students, Tampere University.
2020, 2022 Bachelor’s seminar in Philosophy, Tampere University.
2021 Master’s seminar in Philosophy, Tampere University.
2020–2022 Philosophy of Science, Tampere University.
2020–2022 Philosophy of the social sciences. Tampere University.
2020 Philosophy of Science. Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
2017–2018 Supervised two masters theses students as one of two supervisors. University of Helsinki.
2017 Online course in the philosophy of the humanities for postgraduate students. University of Helsinki.
2017 Online course in the philosophy of the humanities for postgraduate students. University of Helsinki.
2016 Supervised one masters thesis student as one of two supervisors. University of Tampere.
2015 Designed an online course in the philosophy of the humanities for postgraduate students. University of Helsinki.
2014 Science, values and research ethics in the humanities and the social sciences. Course planned and taught together with Tomi Kokkonen. University of Helsinki.
2012–2014 Introduction to the philosophy of the humanities. Course planned and taught yearly together with Tomi Kokkonen. University of Helsinki.
2012–2014 Philosophy of the humanities. Course planned and taught yearly together with Tomi Kokkonen. University of Helsinki.
2011 Philosophy of the humanities. Course planned and taught together with Tomi Kokkonen and Panu Raatikainen. University of Helsinki.
Pedagogical training: Humpeda 1: teaching and learning at university (2011), PED5121 YP 2.1 Constructive alignment in course design (2018).
Awards and honours
Doctor Ultima, Promotio ordinis philosophorum MMXVII, 25.–27.5.2017, Universitatis Helsingiensis.
Villi Suomen historia: Välimeren Väinämöisestä Äijäkupittaan pyramideihin [The Wild History of Finland – a popular book on pseudohumanities and demarcation] won the Finnish Science Book of the Year (Vuoden tiedekirja) 2015 prize (10 000 €). The prize is awarded by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and the Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing.
Villi Suomen historia: Välimeren Väinämöisestä Äijäkupittaan pyramideihin was nominated as a candidate for the Finnish Esoteric Book of the Year (Vuoden rajatietokirja) 2015 prize. The prize is awarded by the magazine Ultra.
Other academic merits
Secretary and bursar of the Finnish national committee of philosophy of science (member of IUHPST/DLMPST).
Member of the board of the Philosophical Society of Finland – Societas Philosophica Fennica.
Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science.
2018–2022 Member of the editorial team of Ajatus, the peer-reviewed annual of the Philosophical Society of Finland.
2021–2022 Deputy member of the Science Council, Tampere University.
15.2.–15.3.2019 Visiting fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
1.1.–31.5.2018. Visiting researcher in the Academy of Fine Arts. University of the Arts Helsinki.
2.9.–16.12.2017 Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Durham University.
Member of the editorial council of the philosophical magazine niin&näin.
Member of the Centre for Philosophy of Social Science (TINT), University of Helsinki.
Member of HELSUS, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science.
Member of the Philosophy of Science Association.
Member of the European Philosophy of Science Association.
Member of Kalevalaseura – The Kalevala Society.
Member of the Finnish Anthropological Society.
Member of the research team of the Academy of Finland project Interdisciplining the university – Prospects for sustainable knowledge production (2016–2021).
Member of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki (2012–2017).
Associate member of the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH), Simon Fraser University, Canada (–2016).
Refereeing
Philosophy of Science, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, The European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Episteme, Social Epistemology, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Perspectives on Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Public Administration, niin & näin, Tiede & Edistys, Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis.
Cambridge University Press, Finnish Literature Society, Vastapaino, Gaudeamus Helsinki University Press.
European Research Council.
Conference organisation
2020 Annual Colloquium of the Philosophical Society of Finland 2020 (FiPhi 2020). 9.–10.1.2020. Chair of the programme committee: Inkeri Koskinen.
2017 Symposium: Philosophical Challenges for the Institutional and Methodological Implementation of Interdisciplinarity. EPSA17, University of Exeter, UK. 6.9.2017. Chair: Inkeri Koskinen.
2017 AID – Agora for Interdisciplinary Debate: Democratising knowledge production – Extra-academic collaboration in academic research. TINT, the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. 8.5.2017. Moderator: Inkeri Koskinen.