Currently, I am working as doctoral researcher at the unit of Food sciences. My research topic is The health effects of oats and rice in low-gluten diet. 

I am now studying comprehensive health effects of oats and rice as part of a low-gluten diet on metabolically challenged individuals with Professor Kaisa Linderborg and Professor Marjukka Kolehmainen (UEF) in our OAT-GUT-BRAIN-study, with main objectives: 

• Discover how oats affect the human plasma metabolome and gut microbiota during long intervention
• Verify the health potential of oat phenolic compounds by analysis of inflammation markers and antioxidant capacity of plasma
• Investigate how the microbiota and metabolic state achieved by frequent oat consumption affects the postprandial state

I have additional experience on sensory evaluations, but my main focus is on gut microbiota and health effects of (plant) foods. My praised master's thesis (2020) focused on bioactivity of Finnish nettle and yarrow.