– February 2011- Researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
– October 2006 – 2010: Council of the European Union, General Secretariat, Directorate General for External and Politico-Military Affairs, Unit of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Leave on personal grounds as of January 2011.
– January 2002-September 2006: Researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
– April 2005-September 2006: participant in the European Foreign and Security Studies Program (http://www.efsps.eu/)
– September-November 2005: visiting researcher, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels
– April-May 2005: visiting researcher, International Centre for Policy Studies, Kyiv
– 1999-2002: Researcher, University of Turku, Department of Political Science/ Graduate School on Cultural Interaction and Integration
– 1999-2006 (once per academic year) lecturer of the course The Role of the European Union in the Democratisation of Central and Eastern Europe (36 h), University of Turku
– September 2000 – December 2001: Visiting researcher, Institute of International and Social Studies at Tallinn Pedagogical University, Estonia
– September – December 1999: Visiting researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
– April-June 1998: Internee, Tampere Peace Research Institute
– Summers of 1996 and 1997: Internee, Foreign Ministry of Estonia

Koulutus

– Doctor of Social Sciences, University of Turku, Finland (2004)
– Master of Social Sciences, University of Turku, Finland (1998)
– Spring term 2000: Exchange PhD student, University of Aberdeen (UK), Department of Politics and International Relations
– Autumn term 1996: Exchange student, University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Department of Political Science