Personal profile

Curriculum vitae

I'm a crop scientist, currently doing postdoctoral research with double affiliation at the University of Helsinki and University of Jyväskylä.

At the University of Helsinki, I do research on strategies to improve caraway (Carum carvi L.) oil quality. Three approaches are studied: legumes as companion crops for caraway, nutrient foliar sprays and envirotyping. I also do research on strategies to improve biodiversity in the rural landscape, using cover crops and underutilized crop relatives.

At the University of Jyväskylä I do research on citizen level ecological compensation. The research is conducted at the intervention ecology research group. We have a multidisciplinary project called "Katoava luonto" (disappearing nature), where I do a varied range of research: on pollinator abundance on allotment gardens, transformation of lawns into meadows and choice experiment to assess citizens preferences for voluntary biodiversity offset actions.

Education/Academic qualification

Crop Science, PhD, Diversifying Boreal-Nemoral cropping systems for sustainable protein production

External positions

Postodoctoral researcher, University of Jyväskylä

5 Jan 2018 → …

Fields of Science

  • 4111 Agronomy
  • 411 Agriculture and forestry
  • Crop Science
  • Crop physiology
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Food systems research
  • Food Chemistry
  • Crop Ecology
  • Urban agriculture
  • Agriculture and climate change
  • Novel crops
  • 118 Biological sciences
  • Flowering
  • Nutrient cycling
  • Phenology
  • 1172 Environmental sciences
  • Ecological compensation
  • Participatory Research Methodologies
  • Intervention ecology
  • Citizen science
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Conservation biology
  • Choice modelling
  • 416 Food Science
  • Food chemistry
  • Essential oils
  • Fatty acids and lipids
  • Oil quality

International and National Collaboration

Publications and projects within past five years.