I am a doctoral researcher in digital language studies at the University of Turku, funded by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation. My research combines medieval Latin textual data with state-of-the-art machine learning methods. I hold a Master’s degree in Classical Philology with a specialization in Latin, focusing on medieval Latin. My primary interests include the study of grammar, quantitative methodologies, and local history.

In addition to my academic work, I am passionate about science communication and have published numerous popularized articles. I am a member of the school’s Working Group on Societal Interaction and Communications for several semesters. Additionally, I have also been an active member of the Tohtoriverkosto society, contributing regularly to its activities.

Modern Methods for Medieval Texts

In my digital humanities doctoral dissertation, I investigate medieval apostolic penitentiary documents and the Registrum Ecclesiae Aboensis copybook using corpus linguistics methods. My research focuses on language use and linguistic variation (register analysis) in Medieval Latin, utilizing metadata-enriched and morpho-syntactically annotated corpora. Committed to promoting open-access research, I openly publish all my code, data, and results alongside my publications.

I am a member of the TurkuNLP and TUCEMEMS research groups.

Grants

My work is supported by several grants, including the Emil Aaltonen Foundation grant (2022–2024), Turku University Foundation travel grant (2023), University of Turku research grants (2022, 2021), Finnish Cultural Foundation Varsinais-Suomi Regional Fund grant (2021), and Uskelan Opintorahastosäätiö grant (2020). I have also received Turku University Foundation Villa Tammekann grants for research visits to Tartu, Estonia (2023, 2024, 2025).

In 2024, I was awarded the Otto A. Malm mobility grant and the Kordelin Foundation full-time working grant. In January and December 2024, I conducted my research at the Finnish Institute in Rome, visiting the penitentiary archive and libraries. For 2025 I was awarded the Villa Lanten ystävät – Villa Lantes vänner ry. grant. I have received a travel grant from COST Action CA21167 for Corpus Linguistics 2025.

Research Visits
In fall 2024, I visited the History Department at Harvard University to discuss their current research in digital methods and to present my own work on parsers. Winter 2024, I presentend my work at The American Academy in Rome as a part of the Circolo Gianicolense seminar. In spring 2025, I was invited to present my work at the Junge Zürcher Mediävistik seminar at the University of Zürich. 

Teaching Experience

University of Tartu, Estonia

• Lecture From Manuscripts and Edited Publications to XML for BA and MA students as a part of Paberilt arvutisse lecture course
  

• Practical Workshop: Automatic morpho-syntactic annotation of large language corpora using the Universal Dependencies framework (spring 2024). This five-session workshop for PhD students and staff covered theory, terminology, parsing tools, and practical treebank creation.
  
• Lecture for the Digital Resources course in Classical Philology: Treebanks and automatic linguistic annotation for Classical Languages (spring 2024).
  

University of Turku, Finland

• Digital Interaction Lecture Course (spring 2024): One lecture: Using computer-assisted methods for parsing grammar.
  • Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology (fall 2023, five lectures and 2024, six lectues): Topics included student projects, ethics and large language models, named-entity recognition, sentiment analysis, automatic morpho-syntactic parsing, representing language as vectors, and supervised and unsupervised machine learning.
  • Linguistic Landscapes Course: A lecture titled Historiallisten kirjallisten lähteiden näkökulmia kielimaisemiin Turussa, co-taught with Professor Marko Lamberg (2023-03-15).