I am affiliated with the Department of English as a postdoctoral researcher, and work as a teacher of Finnish as a second language.

I defended my doctoral thesis in 2017 at the University of Jyväskylä, in applied linguistics. In 2021–2022, I worked as a postdoc at the University of Turku, in Fluency and Disfluency Features in L2 Speech (FDF2) project. The project was funded by the Academy of Finland and led by professor Pekka Lintunen. My research has covered foreign language learning, and especially its fluency, in reading, writing, and speaking. I am also a member of the Turku university research group FlowLang. During the spring 2022, I was a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam. In a CogniFin project (September 2023–August 2024, funded by Turku University Foundation) I conducted research on English speakers' fluency of Finnish as a second language.

I am especially interested in how cognitive processing affects learning a second or foreign language, and how understanding the background processes of language use can help in explaining different features of, for example, fluent or disfluent speaking or efficient reading.