I am an environmental economist focused on agriculture and its environmental effects. My research relates especially to reducing nutrient runoff and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture while simultaneously ensuring the profitability of agricultural production both for individual farmers and from the society’s perspective. I study various policy instruments to incentivize private farmers to act in a socially optimal manner, and the cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness of various practices to reduce agriculture’s negative environmental impacts. Currently I am involved in research projects focusing on soil amendments and their potential to reduce phosphorus loading (AIN3 project funded by the Ministry of the Environment and GYPREG project funded by EU Interreg), and on carbon farming (MULTA project funded by the Strategic Research Council Finland and Digi4CSA project with funding from the NextGenerationEU instrument funded by the Academy of Finland). For carbon farming, I have focused especially on the temporary nature of carbon sequestration, profitability and yield benefits from increased soil carbon stocks.
I work as a university lecturer in environmental economics at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Economics and Management. I teach courses related to environmental economics in the Bachelor’s Program in Environmental and Food Economy, in the Master’s program in Agricultural, Environmental and Resource Economics, and in the Bachelor’s Programs in Liberal Arts and Sciences and in Environmental and Agricultural Economics starting in the fall 2026.