Selected earlier employment

• 2015-2020
  Academy Research Fellow, University of Turku
• 2014-2015
  Professor of gerontology, University of Tampere
• 2013-2015
  Senior Researcher, University of Turku
• 2010-2013
  Senior Researcher, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku /
  Helsinki
• 2007-2009
  Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, National
  Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
• 2004-2007
  Researcher, National Public Health Institute, Turku

Ongoing studies as a PI

Finnish
Retirement and Aging study (FIREA), 2013– (www.utu.fi/firea ).

• Aim: Examine changes in health behaviors, health, and
  functioning before and after retirement transition
• Funders: Academy of Finland, Ministry of Education and
  Culture, Juho Vainio Foundation, Hospital District of Southwest Finland

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  Aim: Examine and evaluate the effectiveness of technology-supported
  physical activity intervention among recent retirees

• Funders: Academy of Finland, Ministry of Education and
  Culture, Juho Vainio Foundation

• Aim: Predictors and health consequences of extended
  working life
• Funder: Finnish Work Environment Fund

Awards and other honors

• Prize
  for Promising researcher in gerontology, the Nordic Gerontology
  Federation, 2014.
• Paper
  award, 2nd place, Finnish Society of Sport Sciences, 2016.

International research visits

• Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
  Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston, MA, USA, June 2017 – July 2017
• Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Health,
  National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA, September 2012 – October 2012
• Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, National Institutes of
  Health, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 2007 –
  November 2009

Publications

• 119 in international peer-reviewed journals and 5 in
  Finnish peer-reviewed journals
• 34 first authorship, 17 last authorship
• H index 26

Other academic activities

Editorial board membership

• Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences
• Scandinavian Journal for Work, Environment &
  Health

• Member of Advisory Board, Center for Healthy Aging,
  University of Copenhagen
• Member of Research Faculty at the Medical Faculty in
  University of Turku
• Member of Scientific Committee, Nordic Gerontological
  Federation (NGF)

 Research training merits

• Experience in supervising PhD students (2 completed,
  10 ongoing) and postdoctoral fellows
  
• Opponent (4 times) or
  examiner for PhD thesis (3 times) 

 Grant reviewer

• Expert reviewing panel in the Swedish Research Council
• Several other grant reviews for international funding institutes