Research Director, Dept of Geography 2019-2020; Guest lecturer, University of Cologne 2019; Visiting scholar, Technical University of Berlin 2019; Project leader, TSE 2019; Research Director, CCR 2017 -2018;
Professor, Economic Geography, TSE 2007-2017. Previously researcher and
visiting scholar (Helsinki School of Economics; University of Uppsala 1988–89; University
of Stanford/SCANCOR 1993; UNC-North Carolina 1993; UC- Berkeley 1994; Erasmus
Rotterdam 1995​–2006).

Title of Docent (Geography of
the firm), Aalto University School of Business; Turku School of Economics (Economic Geography).

Dr.Sc.(Econ.);
Lic.Sc.(Econ.);  M.Sc.(Econ.), Helsinki
School of Economics (now Aalto University).

Selected activities:

Series
Advisory Editor, Springer Economic Geography Series, 2018 – .

Member, Committee of Research
and Doctoral Studies (TuJa), Turku School of Economics, August 2012 – July 2017.

Member, Board of the Doctoral
Programme of TSE, August 2012 – July 2017.

Member, OpenUTU steering
group, September 2015 – 2018.

Editorial Advisory Board Member,
European Journal of Innovation Management, 2015–2017.

Editor, Regional Studies
(2008–2013)

Book Review Editor, Regional
Studies (2007–2013)

Vice-Chair (2009–2011) and
Chair (2011–2014), International Geographical Union (IGU) National Committee

Reviewer for leading journals
in economic geography and related disciplines

Innovation districts in emerging and advanced
economies (IDeaS project); MNE strategies and changing power balances in the
global economy (book project); research collaborations on the themes of management
geography; innovation systems in space; cluster transformation; start-up
entrepreneurship and institutional change.

M.Sc. and Dr.Sc. supervision in Economic Geography.
Doctoral candidates: Janne Lindstedt, Susanna Kivelä, Kari Mäkeläinen, Lucía
Gomez, Jarmo Nikander, Anton Hausen; Sidath Alwis; Completed: Maria Höyssä (TSE 2013), Ewald
Kibler (TSE 2012), Caterina Marchionni (co-supervisor, Erasmus 2005), Riitta
Kosonen (HSE 2002).