Finnish Economist and Data Scientist based in Switzerland

I am a former Facebook Global Operations specialist and currently work as a technology consultant at Buildbite. Additionally, I am a Ph.D. researcher at University of Helsinki's Centre for Social Data Science, 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. I am professionally trained in computer science and I hold a Master of Science in economics. My professional skills, experience and interests include big data analysis, data engineering and machine learning applications, software product management, operations and risk management in multiple industries and academia. In my free time, I enjoy learning new languages, culture, history, traveling and sports. 

Over the past six years, I have worked in the 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 and click here for industry work experience.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in data science (in Finnish: yhteiskuntadatatiede), specialising in applied machine learning, including natural language processing, topic modeling and network analysis, for understanding complex user behaviour and algorithmic influence on social media platforms, University of Helsinki, Finland (enrolled 2022-2026).

• Bachelor and Master of Science in economics, specialising 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). After my graduation, I worked in Washington, D.C. in the transatlantic security field as a visiting scholar at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies' Foreign Policy Institute and as a contributor for the Wilson Center. See my work here and here.