I wrote my thesis on implementation theory when I was working as a junior researcher at the Public Choice Research Centre (PCRC); a centre of exellence funded by the Academy of Finland (2008-2013). After this I continued my work on mechanism design in an AoF funded three-year project "Institutions and power - a mechanism design approach" (2014-2017). Since September 2017 I have been on a tenure track position at Turku School of Economics, first as an assistant professor (2017-2022), and then as an associate professor (2022-2025), to be finally promoted a full professor at the beginnig of 2026.

I am interested on all aspects of mechanism design - both theoretical and applied. Currently, I am working with problems related to behavioral mechanism design, particularly on questions of coalition formation between biased agents, and trying to solve what can be implemented in cooperative solution concepts like the von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set. Outside of mechanism design I am trying to develop a revealed preference theory for farsighted behavior and new tools for innovation policy. You can access most of my published papers, as well as some ongoing work, from the links above.

For several years now I have been mainly teaching advanced microeconomics: Advanced Microeconomic Theory I (KTS20) and Advanced Microeconomic Theory II (KTS22).