Academic experience and qualifications

Work experience

2018–2019 Post-doctoral researcher; Management and Organization; Hanken School of Economics

2016–2017 Assistant Professor; Management and Organization; Hanken School of Economics

2015 Post-doctoral researcher; Work and Organizational Psychology; Universtity of Helsinki

2011–2015 Doctoral student; Work and Organizational Psychology; Universtity of Helsinki

Qualifications

2015 PhD (Psychology), Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki

2016 Basic and subject studies in University Pedagogy (60 cr), The Helsinki University Centre of Research and Development of Higher Education

2015 Wellbeing at work -card, The Centre for Occupational Safety

2014 Legitimized psychologist, Valvira

Positions of trust

2018–2019 Chair of the Health Psychology Section of the Finnish Psychological Society; Secretary (2017); Board member (2016).

Member of the professional workgroup for work and organisational psychology of the Finnish Psychological Association (2018–2019).

Expert reviewer for SanomaPro Motiivi book series’ (second degree education) fourth volume: Yksilöllinen ja yhteisöllinen ihminen (2018)

Awards and honours

2019 Shortlisted for the 2019 WES-SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence.

2016 Colleague of the year Department of Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics

2015 Publication of the Year 2014 -award, granted by the National Doctoral Programme of Psychology.

EDIT: I am currently working at Metacore games as Wellbeing & Performance Lead and will be updating these pages soon. So bear with me! 🙂

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