I am associate professor in food development at the Food Sciences unit (Department of Life Technologies, UTU). I have completed my PhD in food chemistry in 2016 (UTU) and hold a Title of Docent in food metabolomics. The topic of my PhD thesis was "NMR Metabolomics of Foods – Investigating the Influence of Origin on Sea Buckthorn Berries, Brassica Oilseeds and Honey". During my PhD studies (2014) and post doc phase (2018) I visited the Slupsky lab in University of California - Davis.

My research focuses in varying topics in the field of NMR Metabolomics and Food Sciences.

• Effect of Northern latitudes on food plant phenotypes
  
• Human milk metabolomics
  
• Botanical origin, quality and authenticity of honey
  
• Lipidomics
  
• Structural elucidation (NMR)

Project PI of 

• TYRNIRAKI - nutrient cycling at the Archipelago Sea drainage basins using sea buckthorn stands
• New quality of garden strawberry (collaboration with Natural Resources Institute Finland)
• Chemical composition and quality of Finnish grapes

• Food Technology
• Food Safety and Legislation (process-derived contaminants)
• Food Metabolomics and Multivariate Analysis (NMR metabolomics)
• Departmental contact person for student exchange