I received my Master's degree in archaeology at University of Turku in 2008. I have worked as an archaeobotanist in the Archaeological museum at the University of Stavanger, Norway, during 2016-2019. I received my PhD in 2019. For the majority of my career I have worked as a grant researcher in research projects funded by various foundations and the Academy of Finland. My affiliations include the University of Turku (Department of Archaeology and Biodiversity unit), University of Tartu in Estonia (Department of Archaeology), University of Stavanger in Norway (Archaeological museum) and Niedersächsisches Institut für historische Küstenforschung in Germany. I am a post doc at Biodiversity unit at UTU. Currently I work as a Research coordinator at the Human Diversity consortium at UTU.

My research focuses on the history of economic plants, cultivation, agriculture, and biodiversity during the Iron Age and the Middle Ages, approached through archaeology and archaeobotany. Geographically, my work covers Fennoscandia and the Baltic region, with additional studies conducted in Greece and Italy. In my research, I have employed methods such as genetic and isotopic analyses to investigate the history of cultivation and the use of plants in Finland, Estonia and Norway. I have also studied plant remains from medieval rural villages and graves, diet and consumption at archaeological sites, wood species used in medieval sculptures and coffins, waterlogged plant material from shipwrecks, and botanical evidence in crime scene investigations.

I have teached archaeobotany at the University of Turku for geology students (2012-2021). I teach archaeobotany at the University of Tartu in Estonia (2025->). I supervise Master's theses and review them.