My research focuses mainly on human aspects of sustainable agricultural production, with current and prior work on agroecology and environmental topics including: high nature value farming, results-based payments for biodiversity and ecosytem services, agri-environmental policy, heritage landscapes (traditional rural biotopes), innovation for farmland nature management,local foods, ecosystem services.

I completed my doctoral dissertation in 2017. Post-doctoral activities include: Report series on results-based payments (2020 National Trust, UK); Grasslands, biodiversity and business report (2019 Latvian Fund for Nature), Horizon 2020 project HNV-Link (2018); Finnish inventory of demonstration farms for (2017 Horizon2020 project Plaid Peer to Peer project. I am vice-chair of Cultural Landscapes Association, Finland and represent the organistion in PerinneELO Finnish Expert Group of Semi-natural Grasslands.

My teaching experience includes supervision of final projects at bachelor and master's levels, HENVI course in food loss and food waste, and bachelor-level courses in restoration and management of cultural landscapes.

Other experience includes Millennium Ecosystem Assessment follow-up programme and other activities at United Nations Environment Programme in Kenya, approximately five years organic/biodynamic farming including as a herd manager, and farm-based field research.