Finnish Economist and Data Scientist based in Switzerland

I combine expertise in economics, computer science, and data science to understand how digital markets work, and I design scalable, user-friendly data products to drive insights for strategic decision-making. I am a former Facebook Global Operations specialist and currently work as a technology consultant at Buildbite. Additionally, I am a computational and mixed methods Ph.D. researcher at University of Helsinki, and visiting researcher at University of Zurich's Social Computing Group, working at the intersection of machine learning, computational social science and social media research. My professional skills, experience and interests include big data engineering, machine learning applications and software development, operations and risk management in multiple industries and academia.

Over the past six years, I have worked in research and technology industry across five countries - Finland, Denmark, Ireland, United States and Switzerland. I speak Finnish, Swedish, English and German, and some French and Russian. Scroll down for references, click here for industry work experience.

Academic qualifications

• Ph.D. in data science, with expertise in natural language processing, computer science and statistics applied to studying algorithmic political influence and complex user behaviour from large-scale text data on social media platforms, University of Helsinki, Finland (2022-present).

• Bachelor and Master of Science in economics, with expertise in econometrics and causal inference of time series analysis of credit expansion and housing prices in Nordic real estate markets, Hanken School of Economics, Finland (graduated 2019). 

• Visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies' Foreign Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., USA, and as Contributor for the Wilson Center in transatlantic security (2022). See my work here.