I defended my doctoral dissertation in 2015 at the University of Turku, at the Department of Cultural History. The topic of my dissertation was Friedrich Schlegel’s early Romantic philosophy of history. In the spring term of 2017, I was a visiting researcher at the research unit of Historische Kulturwissenschaften at the University of Mainz, Germany. At that year, I also published a monograph based on my dissertation, The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History(New York: Routledge 2017).

In 2018, I was awarded the title of Docent in Cultural History. From 2017 to 2019, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), and from 2019 to 2022 as an Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher on the project Romantic Cartographies: Lived and Imagined Space in English and German Romantic Texts, 1790–1840. In 2019, I was a visiting researcher in Boston at the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks (Northeastern University), and in 2020, I visited the Institute for Natural Language Processing (Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung)  at the University of Stuttgart.

From 2022 to 2025, I worked as a Collegium Researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies. At the same time, I also served as the director of the research project Atlas of Finnish Literature 1870–1940 (funded by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Major Cultural Projects 2022–2024).

My research focuses on the cultural history of the Romantic era, with particular emphasis on the intersections of literature, philosophy, and historical thought in both English and German contexts. I am especially interested in how Romanticism engaged with ideas of space, time and cultural memory, from concepts of the Golden Age to broader cartographies of lived and imagined environments. In addition, my work explores the possibilities of digital humanities for studying historical texts and cultural networks, as well as posthumanist perspectives that challenge anthropocentric readings of history and literature.

In 2025–2027, I will work in the research project Artificial Intelligence Before Computers: The History of Romantic Computationalism (funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation). In addition, I contribute to the Profi8 project Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age.

During my research fellowship, I will concentrate mainly on research, but I do supervise five doctoral students and deliver guest lectures.