Current and past roles across politics, academia, clinical practice, and civic organisations - alongside an active research programme.
Elected and appointed roles in Espoo city governance and national party structures.
Research and advocacy roles in academia.
Hardly any politician maintains a research section on their personal website, if at all. I do, because my academic work and political advocacy are inseparable - both aim to make mental healthcare more accessible.
In plain language: I am building a system that reads your brain's anxiety signals in real time and uses them to automatically adjust a virtual reality therapy scenario - making it easier when you are overwhelmed, harder when you are ready. The goal is therapy that adapts to you, not the other way around.
Technical detail: The system combines EEG sensors monitoring frontal alpha asymmetry, beta/alpha wave ratios, and P300 event-related potentials with eye-tracking and galvanic skin response data. This multimodal signal feeds a closed-loop controller that dynamically modulates VR exposure scenarios built in Unreal Engine - graduated social situations from low-pressure interactions (ordering coffee) to high-demand contexts (public speaking). The goal is a cost-effective, open-source alternative to commercial BCI systems like OpenBCI's Galeo.
Why it matters for Finland: Finland has some of the longest wait times in Europe for psychological services. Rural communities have almost no access to specialist care. A scalable, technology-assisted therapy system deployed through primary healthcare could reach patients who currently wait months or go untreated entirely.
Publications: Peer-reviewed publications forthcoming as the doctoral research progresses.
Collaborations: Aalto Brain Centre, Aalto Media Lab, and HUS Helsinki University Hospital for clinical trials.
This is a private clinical practice, separate from my political and civic work.