MD, University of Turku 1988

PhD, University of Turku, Department of Virology, Immunobiology of central nervous system virus infections 1996

Postdoctoral Fellow, Development and Neurobiology Group, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia 1997-1999

Specialist Degree in Neurology 2001

Adjuct Professor of Clinical Neurology 2008

Inverstigator in several clinical MS trials

Chair of the Finnish MS registry 2016-

General Neurology Section Head, Turku University Hospital, Division of Clinical Neurosciences 2017-

Multiple sclerosis risk factors, prognostic factors and epidemiology.

Imaging of brain atrophy in multiple sclerosis.

Course of medical pedagogics 2011-2012

Supervisor of several PhD student