My interest in photosynthesis started during my BSc Molecular Life Sciences at Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands. During my BSc thesis I studied the process of state transitions in A. thaliana in the group of Dr. Emilie Wientjes. In my MSc I studied intrinsically disordered proteins in the groups of Prof. Dr. Dolf Weijers in Wageningen and Prof. Dr. Tony Hyman at the MPI-CBG in Dresden.

Photosynthesis as a fundamental process for almost all life on Earth didn't leave my thought in those years, so I was delighted when I got the opportunity to do a PhD in the group of Dr. Emilie Wientjes in Wageningen. In those four years, I studied the light adaptation responses of A. thaliana and S. oleracea and other plants on the minute and evolutionary timescale. I adapted a protocol for Expansion Microscopy (ExM) to work on plant chloroplasts, with which I studied the thylakoid organization and its adaptation responses upon light acclimation. Moreover, I used time-resolved fluorescence methods to study differences in photosystem (PS) I properties of several flowering species. With the same method, I recorded an excitation spectrum of the PSI:PSII excitation ratio. 

In my subsequent Postdoc in Wageningen, I adapted the ExM protocol for it to work for cyanobacteria as well.

In August 2025 I started a postdoc in the Regulation of Bioenergetics in Cyanobacteria group with Lauri Nikkanen.