PhD, researcher, curator

Curator at the Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, 
in charge of collections of apomictic vascular plants.

Research activities:

• Atlas Florae Europaeae
• Botanical nomenclature
• Floristic studies in Kyrgyzstan
• Taxonomy and distribution of Cotoneaster (Rosaceae) in Northern Eurasia
• Taxonomy and distribution of Hieracium and Pilosella (Asteraceae) in Northern Eurasia
• Taxonomy of Asteraceae in South-East Asia

Other activities:

• Subject Editor in Nordic Journal of Botany (Botanical nomenclature, Flora of Central Asia), PhytoKeys (Asteraceae, Rosaceae), Phytotaxa (Asteraceae, Flora of Central Asia), Plant Systematics and Evolution.
• Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants (Chairman) at the International Association for Plant Taxonomy.