Education

• 2005 Docent in sociology, University of Helsinki
• 1999 Doctorate in Social Sciences (Sociology), University of Helsinki
• 1993 Licentiate in Social Sciences (Sociology), University of Helsinki
• 1989 Master of Arts in Social Sciences (Sociology), University of Helsinki
• 1983-1989 Studies in sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki
• 1979-1983 Junior lecturer at the Department of Forest Products Marketing, University of Helsinki
• 1980 Master of Science in Forestry Economics (forest products marketing), University of Helsinki
• 1976-80 Studies in forest products marketing at the University of Helsinki
• 1975 Matriculation examination at Vuohengin lukio, Kajaani

Research projects

I have participated in eight and led four research projects financed by the Academy of Finland:

• Local participation and transnational debates: Democractic Effects of Associations in Five Countries 2010-13 (vice-leader, Academy of Finland)
• Social Networks, Associations and Civil Society in Russia in a Comparative Perspective (leader, Academy of Finland Research Fellow 2006-2011)
• Spaces of Democracy: Representation, Citizenship and the Public Sphere, 2005 (researcher, Academy of Finland)
• Russia, Finland and Globalization from a Micro Perspective, 2001-2005 (leader, Academy of Finland)
• Civic Culture and Nationality in North-West Russia, Estonia and Finland, 1999 -2002 (researcher, Academy of Finland)
• Cultural Inertia and Social Change in Russia, 1995-1997 (researcher, Academy of Finland)
• Social Networks and the Specificity of Finnish Culture, 1992-1995 (researcher, Academy of Finland)
• Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis, 1990-1992 (leader, Academy of Finland)

Research Fellow appointments

During 2001-2005 I worked as a Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, and between 2006-2011 as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow. Funding for both of these posts, as well as for the research projects listed above and led by me, were obtained through open competition with a passing rate of 5 – 15 %.

Grants

• January 1 – June 30, 1998 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
• July 1 – December 31, 1998 The Finnish Cultural Foundation
• January 1 – March 30, 1999 University of Helsinki

The total sum of research funds I have obtained amounts to 780.000 €.

Publishing activity (for details, see selected publications)

I have co-edited two books and published two of my own, of which the most recent, peer-reviewed monograph Networks in the Russian Market Economy, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. In addition I have published or have forthcoming 17 articles in peer reviewed journals – among them five in Europe-Asia Studies, one of the central journals in studies of the Russian society, economy and politics and nine articles in scientific edited volumes. During the 2000s I have given 36 presentations at scientific conferences in English, Finnish, French and Russian. (for details, see the list of selected publications)

Teaching

I have taught courses and led graduate and post-graduate seminars on Russian society, political sociology, qualitative methods and social network analysis at the departments of sociology, communication, public health, comparative religion, social and economic history, forest products marketing, and the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki.

Administrative positions

• Vice director and responsible for research activities at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä
• Member of the  International Advisory Board of the Department of Political Sciences and Sociology at the European University at St. Petersburg
• Member of the board of trustees of the Kone Foundation
• Member of the Jyväskylä University board of the Finnish Union of University Professors