Welcome! I am a Senior Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, and a Researcher at Uppsala University. I received my PhD in Political Science from Uppsala University in 2021 and my MA in International Relations and European Studies from Central European University in 2013.

In my PhD dissertation, I investigated climate change mitigation on the international, national and sub-national levels of governance by looking at domestic actors and institutions. My current research interests encompass the determinants of climate change mitigation, the role of climate hazards, and the political legitimacy of climate policies.

I am currently engaged in several funded research projects, which investigate environmental politics and climate governance, including the drivers and barriers of the development of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the effects of climate hazards on climate-resilient development and attitudes towards climate taxation.

My research has been published, or is forthcoming, in the World Development, Global Environmental Politics, npj Climate Action, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, among other outlets.

My Google Scholar page can be found here

I am a Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science Fellow and a Earth System Governance Research Fellow .