Education - 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 Professional career - February 2011- Senior Research Fellow, 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 Positions of trust Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership (http://www.eceap.eu/), Academic Advisory Council Knowledge of languages Estonian, Finnish, English (working languages) French, Russian, Swedish, German (passive)

EU foreign and security policy, the EU's eastern neighbourhood, EU institutions, foreign and security policies of the Baltic countries