The research field of my Professor position includes the basic processes underlying psychological well-being interventions and behavioral changes. I am doctor in psychology, a docent (Adjunct Professor) of clinical psychology, especially interaction research, as well as a special psychologist of work and organisational psychology.
My research focuses on embodied processes in social interaction in clinical and workplace settings in which I use multimodal and mixed-methods approaches. With the Embodied Eureka Research Collective, a multidisciplinary team of researchers that I lead, we investigate interpersonal attunement and synchrony, examining how people connect, co-regulate, and respond to one another through physiology, movement, emotion, and language. I lead the Relational Mind research group, the PhinGAIN consortium project of the Universities of Jyväskylä and Oulu, and the Finnish team in the international Work Addiction study. Moreover, I lead the Multimodal Interaction Laboratory, part of the national MAGICS research infrastructure.
