Curriculum vitae

Professor of New Testament Studies (2008-)

Doctor of Theology, Faculty of Theology, UH (1994)

Project Researcher (1994-5); Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland (1995-2003, 2007-8); Acting Professor of New Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology, UH (2003-7)

Dean, Faculty of Theology, UH (2014-7)

Vice-dean, Faculty of Theology, UH (education, 2010-3)

Visiting Professor, Yale Divinity School (spring term 2019)

Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (2011-)

The 1995 Dissertation Prize of the University of Helsinki

Teacher of the Year 2007, The Faculty Association for Theology Students (TYT)

Description of research and teaching

Research interests: Johannine literature; early Christian gospels; Gnosticism

Leader of the research team Christianity, Judaism and Greco-Roman Thought (one of the three teams comprising the Centre of Excellence in Reason and Religious Recognition Research, director: Professor Risto Saarinen, Faculty of Theology, UH, 2014-9)

Leader of the research project Gnosticism and the Formation of Christianity, 2007-11, funded by the Academy of Finland (EUR200000, 2007-9) and University of Helsinki (2 x 4 yrs fulltime research posts for doctoral students, 2007-11)

Courses taught: introduction to the New Testament; introduction to New Testament theology; introductory Coptic; candidate and master seminars and courses on eschatology; ethnicity; Gnosticism; martyrdom; apostles; the Gospel of Thomas; text courses on the Gospel of John, Epistles of John, Acts of John; the Book of Revelation; Galatians; Sermon on the Mount; New Testament doctoral colloquium.

Supervised doctoral theses (completed, 11): Raimo Hakola (2003, published 2005); Randar Tasmuth (2004); Tuomas Rasimus (2006, published 2009); Minna Heimola (2010, published 2011); Päivi Vähäkangas (2012); Risto Auvinen (2017); Katja Kujanpää (2017, published 2018); Mikko Sivonen (2018); Timo Paananen (2019); Marika Pulkkinen (2020); Ioannis Giantzaklidis (2022).