I am a leading scholar in the field of social relationships, school-based interventions, and adolescent mental health, as evidenced by 50 peer-reviewed publications (20 as first author). My research is highly interdisciplinary, integrating perspectives from education (school-based interventions), sociology (social norms, population-level trends), psychology (peer and parent influences, cognition and behaviour), and psychiatry (mental health). As a strong advocate of Open Science, I preregister the majority of my studies, publish open access in Plan-S-compliant journals, and make analysis scripts, research outputs and pseudonymised data publicly available upon publication.

I also have substantial experience as Principal Investigator of my own three-year SOLID project, in which I supervised PhD candidates, a postdoctoral researcher and several research assistants. The success of SOLID is demonstrated by exceptionally high student participation (including daily diary data from almost 1,700 students), the production of 12 papers instead of the five originally planned (published, under revision or near submission), and a pioneering role in Open Science implementation. In addition, I collaborate in several large-scale international research consortia (e.g., Challenge, Meaningful Roles, GUTS), through which I have developed strong expertise in evaluating school-based interventions. I have also empirically tested widely held assumptions underlying such programmes, demonstrating my ability to ask critical questions and challenge existing paradigms.

I maintain strong ties with professional practice. I have worked as a clinical psychologist with young people and hold qualifications to conduct diagnostic interviews. I also have extensive experience with large-scale school-based data collection, including surveys and experimental designs, and independently cleaned and analysed these datasets using advanced statistical methods (e.g., multilevel modelling, social network analysis, latent profile analysis). In addition, I have experience with qualitative data collection in clinical settings.

Open Science is a core principle in my work. In 2022, I founded the Open Science Community Turku, contributing to the University of Turku becoming a frontrunner in Open Science in Finland. Within this community, I regularly organise activities such as workshops, brown-bag seminars and guest lectures, and I actively contribute to discussions on how the university’s research infrastructure can be further developed to promote and safeguard responsible Open Science practices.