At the beginning of 2025, I started working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Kone Foundation-funded project “Puhetta metsistä. Metsä epistemologisena välineenä sydänkeskiajan Etelä-Italiassa” (roughly translated: "Speaking of Forests: Forest as an Epistemological Tool in Southern Italy during the High Middle Ages"), led by Docent Teemu Immonen from the department of Cultural History. In this project, my focus is on studying the significance of the monastery of Grottaferrata.

In 2024, I worked in the project “Pyhiinvaellus liikkeessä: Pyhiin vaeltamisen motiivit ja merkitykset Turussa keskiajalla ja nykyään” (roughly translated: "Pilgrimage in Motion: Motivations and Meanings of Pilgrimage in Medieval and Contemporary Turku"), led by University lecturer and Docent Minna Opas from the Study of Religion. I was responsible for researching medieval pilgrimage in Turku.

My doctoral dissertation examined the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438–1439), which negotiated the union of the Eastern and Western Churches. While the council concluded with a union, it proved short-lived. My research focused on discussions about manuscripts, their differences, and their authority. Texts of the Bible, Church Fathers, and Ecumenical Councils, preserved in manuscripts, were central sources for the council’s theologians and scholars, who used them to argue for theological doctrines and ecclesiastical practices. However, variations in manuscript versions of the same texts posed challenges. Greek and Latin manuscripts had been preserved both in the East and the West, with some including translations into the other language. New translations were also produced to meet the council's needs. In my dissertation, I considered the role of the council and its theological discussions in the development of humanist textual criticism. While 15th-century humanists traditionally focused on classical texts, ecclesiastical texts played a significant role in fostering their interest in developing textual criticism and translation practices.

As part of the SCISMA project, I researched the monastery of Grottaferrata, which followed Byzantine liturgy and rite but remained under the Catholic Church. I focused on how it navigated the Great Western Schism and reconsidered its identity and loyalty to the pope(s).

In the consortium "Profiling Premodern Authors", which used computational methods to identify the authors of anonymous texts from antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the early modern period, I was responsible for the preprocessing of Latin texts from the medieval and early modern periods.

Beyond these projects, I am interested in a variety of themes, some of which I have already explored in my research. Together with another postdoctoral researcher in Cultural History, Noora Kallioniemi, I published an article on medievalism in Disney’s 1930s short animations.