I'm Postdoctoral researcher in Molecular Plant Biology unit in a project lead by Taina Tyystjärvi - Bioproduction in cyanobacteria. Already since high school I have had a great interest towards biology, which led me in 2010 to University of Turku in the department of biology. During my years in the university I have deepened the knowledge in biology and after second year of bachelor studies I found how fascinating photosynthesis and microbiology is. That is how I found my area of interest and pursued to work with photosynthetic prokaryotes, cyanobacteria. My scientific career started as a summer worker in molecular plant biology unit in "Gene regulation in cyanobacteria" project. In the project I learned how to do basic lab work and numerous techniques from the field of molecular biology, photosynthesis and microbiology. Later I learned to design experiments and to write scientific articles. Meanwhile I got bachelors degree and masters degree and from there I continued working as a doctoral student. I completed my doctoral studies in the doctoral programme of molecular life sciences and defended my thesis: "The biological role of omega subunit of cyanobacterial RNA polymerase" in 2020.

Being very social person, I have also been good in making contacts with other researches. Organizing things is one of my strengths i.e. making my time usage as efficient as possible. That’s why it has been possible to me to work and study simultaneously. When adding cycling, badminton and doing exercise at the local gym to the equation, I think my life is well balanced.