My research has focused particularly on economic history and the history of science. I defended my PhD at Tampere University in November 2023, with a dissertation on the intellectual history of economic growth from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War. The dissertation departed from the question of how and why economic growth and gross domestic product have become influential ideas. I approached this so-called growth paradigm through the lens of conceptual history, focusing on Finnish source materials, and developed competing growth conceptions (classical liberal, social liberal, social democratic, communist, and agrarian conservative) to describe why economic growth matters (or does not matter) in both capitalist and non-capitalist ideologies. The monograph National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth (Routledge), based on the dissertation, was published in the summer of 2025.
Since completing my PhD, I have worked as a researcher in sociology at the University of Helsinki on a project funded by the Kone Foundation, which analyzed the use of expert knowledge in Finnish political debate between 1960 and 2020. I have also published research on the history of old age and on the history of correctional labour facilities.
Currently, I work as a researcher on the History of Science in Finland project, launched by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. The project examines the central developments of science conducted in Finland during the era of independence and situates them within the global framework of the history of science and knowledge. In addition to the project, I am affiliated as a visiting scholar with the iscipline of History at the University of Helsinki. I am a board member and secretary of the Finnish Society for the History of Science and Learning, as well as a member, secretary, and treasurer of the Finnish National Committee for the History of Science and Technology.