I am a Doctoral researcher at the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku. I am associated with research projects related to digital geospatial technologies' application in the Global South - past project of Tanzania Resilience Academy, and current project of Knowledge and climate services from an African observation and data research infrastructure (KADI). My related expertise and personal interests lie on open data, ethics, data quality, and interconnectedness of human-nature systems in complex settings, such as the urban South. Additional elements present in my personal research are citizen science and local knowledge, integrated with geospatial methods.

My Doctoral thesis integrates novel citizen science and geospatial methods for climate adaptation actions. The research is impact-driven and complies with Open Science principles, meaning that all research methods, data, and results are aimed to be useful, useable and used for climate actions in cities. My geographical research profile has strongly been in African countries, most prominently in Tanzania where UTU Department of Geography and Geology have long history of collaboration with universities.

In practice, my Doctoral research developes novel integrated citizen science and geospatial methodology that can be deployed to collect critically missing climate-related data and information on neighborhood-scale, to reveal citizens' climate adaptation needs, and to seek concrete solution pathways. The methodology has been now piloted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. However, validation is needed by scaling the methodology to another urban context, for example in Turku (Finland). Scaling must take into consideration different social and cultural settings, climate stressors that are relevant for the city, as well as needs and characteristics for data, information, and climate actions.

During the recent years, I have been one of the teachers on Geospatial data management and visualisation -course, which is a Master's level course runnin on the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku. I have also assisted in teaching on courses related to applying statistical methods, and methods on human geography.