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6/2016–8/2025 With Sergei Prozorov and Teppo Eskelinen: Janne Säynäjäkangas, political science, Resource Relationships: A Political Ontology for the Anthropocene, University of Jyväskylä. Submitted for pre-examination in Dec. 2024, public examination June 6, 2025. Accepted August 27, 2025.

11/2016–5/2025 With Mikko Yrjönsuuri: Henna Vainio, philosophy, Tragedian rooli ilmastonmuutoksen näyttämöllä: tragedian mahdollisuuden ja käsitteen pohdintaa [The Role of Tragedy on the Scene of Climate Change: Reflections on the Possibility and Concept of  Tragedy], University of Jyväskylä. Submitted for pre-examination in Sept. 2024, public examination April 26, 2025. Accepted May 14, 2025.

5/2014–6/2023 With Erika Ruonakoski and Joona Taipale: Jaakko Vuori, philosophy, Melancholic Experiences: A Genetic-Phenomenological Study of the Typus Melancholicus, University of Jyväskylä. Submitted for pre-examination in Aug. 2022, public examination May 29, 2023. Accepted June 21, 2023.

11/2016–2/2022  With Mika Ojakangas: Samuel Lindholm, political science, Jean Bodin and Biopolitics, University of Jyväskylä. Submitted for pre-examination in June 2021, public examination Feb. 4, 2022. Accepted Feb. 23, 2022.

5/2016–1/2022 With Jari Kaukua: Lauri Myllymaa, philosophy, Two Sources of Knowledge: Origin and Generation of Knowledge in Maine de Biran and Henri Bergson, University of Jyväskylä. Submitted for pre-examination in June 2021, public examination Dec. 18, 2021. Accepted Jan. 19, 2022.

6/2015–4/2018 With Mika Ojakangas: Ville Suuronen, political science, Thinking through the Twentieth Century with Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt: Essays on Politics, Law, and Technology, University of Jyväskylä. Moved in 2018 to political history, University of Helsinki, with new supervisors: Kaius Tuori, Jacob Giltaij. Submitted for pre-examination in June 2021, public examination Nov. 19, 2021. Accepted Dec. 14, 2021.

1/2014–3/2020 With Arto Laitinen and Jussi Kotkavirta: Olli Pitkänen, philosophy, The Possibility of a Metaphysical Conception of Evil in Contemporary Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä. Submitted for pre-examination in May 2019, public examination March 6, 2020. Accepted April 22, 2020.

9/2014–1/2019 With Arto Haapala: Harri Mäcklin, aesthetics, Going Elsewhere: A Phenomenology of Aesthetic Immersion, University of Helsinki. Submitted for pre-examination in June 2017, public examination Jan. 11, 2019. Accepted Jan. 29, 2019.

11/2012–2/2016 With Katariina Holma: Anniina Leiviskä, education, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of Education: Beyond Modernism and Postmodernism, University of Helsinki. Submitted for pre-examination in Aug. 2015, public examination Jan. 15, 2016. Accepted Feb. 16, 2016.

2025 Kone Foundation. Senior research grant, 48 months. Project: A Political Genealogy of Happiness.

2018 Academy of Finland. Academy Research Fellowship, 60 months (9/2018–8/2023). Project: Creation, Genius, Innovation: Towards a Conceptual Genealogy of Western Creativity (decision no. 317276).