My doctoral thesis (2012) discussed the reciprocal relationship between the private and common good in the social networking and business lives of the local merchant community during the 18th and 19th centuries. The study analysed manifestations of private and public interest in the local merchant community at the individual, communal, and national levels. The primary goal of this study was to constitute an overall picture of the merchant community of Pori, a small town on the western coast of Finland, where individual and seemingly disconnected events are being affiliated in larger-scale societal developments embedded in political, cultural, and economic spheres.

My research interests lie in premodern social and economic history of merchant families and family firms and has published widely on social and economic history and family and gender history in Finnish towns in premodern times.

I have held several reseracher and teaching post at the University of Turku since defending my doctoral thesis. Currently I'm working as a senior lecturer until April 2019.