I am an ethicists, environmental philosopher and theologian with broad interdisciplinary interests. I am especially curious about philosophical, cultural and conceptual conditions of sustainability transformation and biodiversity conservation, and the prospects for relational philosophy in sustainability ethics. My fields of interest include subjectivity and agency, philosophical anthropology, metaethics, ethical theory, ontology, epistemology, philosophy of ecology, as well as political philosophy and social ethics.
I have authored a monograph Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics. A Journey beyond Humanism as We Know It (Lexington Books 2023).
My doctoral thesis Ecologically Relational Moral Agency. Conceptual Shifts in Environmental Ethics and Their Philosophical Implications (2020) analyzed the role of philosophical anthropology and concepions of moral agency for the prospecs of ethics to deal with complex environmental issues, and lauched a relational approach to agency and metaethics.
Postdoctoral research projects:
- Relational Biodiversity Ethics (REBET) (2025-2027), an EU funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie research project at the Aarhus University, School of Culture and Society, Theology Department.
- Relational Sustainability Ethics (2024-2029, extended), University of Helsinki (Faculty of Theology and RESET) and University of Antwerp (Department of Philosophy).
- A tree of knowledge: Practicing slow science in accelerating society (2024-2025), University of Helsinki.
- The role of an Individual in Transformation of Biodiversity Politics (INBIPOL)(2023-2027), Tampere University.
- Relational environmental responsibilities. Influence of enactivism for the discussion on environmental resposinilities and their justification (2022-23), University of Helsinki.
Other experience included acting, e.g. as:
- University Lecturer in Ethics (University of Helsinki, 5y and 7y part-time)
- Istructor in professional further training for the Church personnel (11y)
- Researcher in a strategy project at The Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA, where I participated to SITRA's strategy project and authored several articles on sustainability change, ethics and environmental politics.
