Who am I?

I am an Academy Research Fellow at Aalto University. My research interests lie at the intersection of work, expertise, and professions. I use qualitative and archival methods to examine professions and their work in complex settings such as simulation rooms, central banks, and tech that are saturated with information, technology, and interdependencies. I am a member of the editorial review board of Organization Science. My research has been published in the Journal of Management Studies and in the Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

I hold a Ph.D. in Organization and Management from Aalto University, Finland. Prior to that, I studied sociology at the University of Helsinki. Before rejoining Aalto University, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Emlyon Business School in France, and Stanford University in the USA.

I love riding my bike(s). You can follow my rides in Strava.

My current research

I am researching themes related to professions and occupations, expertise, and technology in empirical settings such as macroeconomic modeling and forecasting, monetary policymaking, and design in the tech industry. In my project on design work, I utilize the Nokia Design Archive and other data to examine the coevolution of the design profession – including tasks, expertise, and the division of labor – and technology, as well as the intra- and interoccupational dynamics in design and tech development.

I am leading a new research project, funded by the Research Council of Finland, on the New Constellations of Work, Technology, and Organization. This project examines new and evolving forms of work and professions, and technological change, through a comparative ethnographic field study of various emerging areas of tasks and problems. The aim is to systematically develop new conceptual understandings of work and workers in relation to new and changing social problems and expertise in the 21st century.

My published work

My work, including one paper on relational expertise, AI, and professions, and another on theoretical plurality across studies of professions has been published in Journal of Management Studies. Both studies are also available as preprint versions (here and here) without paywall. I have also written blog post with my co-author summarizing our paper on AI and professions.

I have also written about aesthetic expertise in a paper that is forthcoming in Research in the Sociology of Organizations. The preprint version of this paper is already available.