Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Tampere, School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, 2015 (Thesis: Variation in the Progressive: A Corpus-based Study into World Englishes)
Master of Arts, University of Tampere, 2006
Academic career
2023-2028: Senior researcher, Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters BOMOCULT, University of Eastern Finland
2022-2023: Senior researcher, Coordinator for Datasets and research infrastructure for humanities, University of Eastern Finland
2021: University instructor in English language, Tampere University
2018-2020: Post-doctoral researcher, University of Eastern Finland
2014-2017: Post-doctoral researcher, University of Tampere, Changing English (ChangE): Integrating Cognitive, Social & Typological Perspectives consortium funded by the Academy of Finland
2006-2014: Doctoral researcher, University of Tampere/Langnet
Teaching
Academic writing in English; Foundations of Professional and Academic Communication in English; Monikielinen johdanto akateemisiin viestintä- ja kieliopintoihin (Tampere University)
Researching English as a World Language; Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Univ. of Eastern Finland)
Englishes around the World, English as a Global Language, Variety in Present-day English, Structure of English, Grammar and context, Linguistics, Linguistics 2 (Univ. of Tampere)
Scientific expert positions
Referee for Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (2024), Languages (2024), AFinLa Proceedings (2023), Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (2015, 2019, 2021, 2023), TESOL (2023), Corpora (2022), English World-wide (2022), Folia Linguistica Historica (2022), International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (2022), International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (2022), Journal of English Linguistics (2022), Lingua (2019, 2021, 2024), Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (2020, 2023), Applied Linguistics (2018), International Journal of Learner Corpus Research (2017), Nordic Journal of African Studies (2014), Apples – Journal of Applied Language Studies (2010)
Member of the Board of Referees at Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (2019-)
Member of the organizing committee: ISLE6 (2021), ICAME39 (2018), Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Summer Assembly (2017)
Member of the scientific committee: ICAME43 (2022), ICAME 41 (2020), ICAME 40 (2019), American Association for Applied Linguistics (2017, 2018, 2022, 2023), English as a Lingua Franca and Changing English (2017), Changing English: Integrating Cognitive, Social and Typological Perspectives (2015)
Board member of Plural - Multidisciplinary Research Centre for Languages and Cultures (Univ. of Tampere), 2009-2010 and 2017
Member of editorial board: Tampere Studies in Language, Translation and Literature, 2014-2016
Grants and awards
Government’s Analysis, Assessment and Research Activities (VN TEAS) , 2022
YERUN Researcher Mobility Award, 2019
Eino Jutikkala Fund of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters: a travel grant, 2018
International Short Visit, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF): a travel grant, 2015
1,5 year doctoral research funding, Langnet Doctoral Programme, 2010
1 year doctoral research funding, Langnet Doctoral Programme, 2009