About
Researcher, teacher, and data enthusiast. Based in Finland.
I am a Saara and Björn Wahlroos Foundation Fellow at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. My research sits at the intersection of empirical corporate finance and financial regulation — I care about identification, measurement, and what firms' financial decisions actually reveal about the people running them.
Before Hanken, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Exeter and a visiting researcher at Aalto University. I completed my PhD in Accounting and Finance at Lancaster University, supervised by Mark Shackleton, Shantanu Banerjee, and Nicholas Carline.
Earlier in my career I worked in Big Four consulting at PwC, EY, and KPMG — which gave me a practitioner's lens I find genuinely useful in academic work.
Teaching
I have taught across Lancaster, Exeter, and Aalto, covering corporate finance, financial econometrics, and valuation. I integrate real data tools into coursework because I think students learn finance best when they're doing it, not just reading about it.
Outside academia
I run (currently managing a running injury, so it's mostly trail-walking these days) and cycle. I follow personal finance and investing closely, think about Finnish tax structures more than is healthy, and enjoy tinkering with home server setups.