I defended my PhD thesis at the University of Turku in spring 2017. After that, I worked on the project Hundred Finnish linguistic life stories at the University of Helsinki, and then at the University of Tartu as a visiting researcher. I returned to the University of Turku in fall 2019.

In 2022 and 2023, I have been researching pronouns referring to animals with a grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and I have also held temporary teaching positions. From December 2023, I will be a researcher in FiRe (Finnish Relations), a project focusing on the development of relational expressions during the period of written Finnish, funded by the Academy of Finland. 

In 2023, I was awarded the Title of Docent of Finnish Language at the University of Turku.

I study variation, grammar and interaction in the Finnish language, positioning myself as an interactional sociolinguist. My focus is on features typical to spoken language, and the grammar of spoken language, which may differ from that of written language. My research is connected to sociolinguistics, and I also investigate layman speakers’ perceptions of these features. My approach is multimethodological: I use quantitative methods with large data sets to sketch the big picture and then focus on an interesting phenomenon using qualitative methods, such as conversation analysis and discourse analysis.

My current research focuses on references to humans and animals with the Finnish personal and demonstrative pronouns and on the constructions of reported discourse and their development in written Finnish.

I have studied 25 ECTS University Pedagogy in 2014-15.

The courses I have been teaching during the last few years are Semantics, Pragmatics and Interaction, Text Analysis, Scientific Writing (Minor Subject), and Introduction to General Linguistics I.