About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Political Philosophy and Theory, currently affiliated with the Politics Unit at the University of Tampere, where I work in the project "The Politics of Proximity in the 1900s and 2000s in Finland". I have earlier worked at the Department  of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and I'm affiliated with the International Populism Research Network based in the Political Theory, History of Ideas and Political Culture section at Kiel University (CAU Kiel). I've earned my PhD at the Doctoral Programme in Philosophy, Arts and Society at the University of Helsinki in 2023. My research interests involve questions concerning the Politics of Proximity, Space, and Distance, Democratic Theory, the Philosophy and Theory of Political Imagination, Political Ontology and Political Affectivity as well as phenomena connected to Polarization and Radicalization.

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My PhD, which I defended at the University of Helsinki in September of 2023, is titled Political Ontology and Imagination: Towards a Democratic Political Imaginary. It combines perspectives in current research on political imagination, political ontology and democratic theory. It proceeded from the tradition of continental political philosophy, researching thinkers such as Cornelius Castoriadis, Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude Lefort, in order to sketch out a new theory of political ontology. Its aim is to shed light on the political ontology of democracy through an enriched conception of the role of political imagination for democratic politics. 

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​After finishing my PhD I worked on a postdoctoral research project titled "Political Imagination and the Crisis of Political Rationality" (from 2023 to 2025) which aimed to redescribe political rationality as a facet of political imagination and diagnose political polarization in liberal democracies as a result of a deepening splintering in the way we imagine political reality. The project also aimed to consider the ways in which political rationality, understood as emanating from shared political imagination, could be reconstructed and reonciled with  democratic values and political pluralism without imposing monovalent, dominating or oppressive forms of political rationality.

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In my research I draw inspiration from a wide variety of theoretical sources, but my main areas of competency are within contemporary political thought, including but not limited to: 

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• 20th and 21st century "continental" political thought

• poststructural political thought

• radical democratic thought

• affect theory

• critical theory 

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I'm fluent in English, Swedish and Finnish and have a good grasp of French, German, Norwegian and Danish.

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