Projects

I collaborate with numerous research projects as a material scientist, e.g. the Levänluhta-project directed by Doc. Anna Wessman and the Academy of Finland funded Survivors of Ragnarök -project directed by Prof. Kristin Ilves.

I am also a member of the Academy of Finland funded Centre of Excellence (2018–2025) on Ancient Near Eastern Empires at the University of Helsinki, Team 3 (Material Culture and Cultural Heritage).

My recent research project at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) No (Viking) Man’s Land? Materialising East-West Mobility on the Finnish Baltic Coast ca. 800–1000 CE focused on late Iron Age, mainly Viking Age (ca. 800–1000 CE), material culture, and particularly archaeological pottery and metal artefact traditions in the region of the Finnish Baltic Sea coast (the coastal southern areas of modern Finland).

My previous project, Academy of Finland funded postdoctoral research (Untangling Corded Ware: Provenancing Battle Axe Culture Pottery of Southern Finland 2012–2015) dealt with the Neolithic Corded Ware Culture (CWC) complex, which spread across the Baltic Sea region ca. 2900/2800–2300/2000 BCE. This project was an interdisciplinary and international collaboration in which grog-tempered CWC pots from 24 archaeological sites in southern Baltoscandia (Estonia and the southern regions of Finland and Sweden) were sampled for geochemical and micro-structural analyses (SEM-EDS and PIXE) to allow geochemical discrimination of the ceramic fabrics to identify regional CWC pottery-manufacturing traditions and ceramic exchange.