I studied Classics at the University of Turku and I am currently a university lecturer of classical languages.

My research concentrates on how people in antiquity thought about language and its use, and how they formulated their thoughts. I have studied, for instance, the concept of grammatical gender in ancient linguistics. Recently, I have also studied the De vulgari eloquentia written by Dante Alighieri.

I have taught Classics for over 20 years and, from the very beginning, considered the ancient texts, from Homer to Church Fathers, to be the core of the teaching.