Currently, I work as a reseacher in a project related to bioeconomy and justice. From 2015 to 2017, I coordinated the project Justice and its Alternatives in a Globalizing world, see http://management.aalto.fi/fi/disciplines/philosophy/research-philosophy/oiva/.

I defended my doctoral thesis "Hijacking responsibility - Philosophical studies on health distribution" at the University of Helsinki (Social and Moral Philosophy) in October 2018.

In the thesis, I examine the theoretical background of a political trend, the responsibilization of the individual. The trend turns complex societal issues like poverty and sickness into simple questions of individual responsibility. I look the issue especially from point of view of distribution of health and argue that discussions on responsibility have been hijacked by a simplified backward-looking desert-based view. My main claim is that responsibility should not have a role in the distribution of primary goods. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/241213

My work is related to theories of justice, liberal egalitarianism, distributive and social justice, the philosophy of responsibility, the social determinants of health, and the methodology of bioethics.