I am currently working on my foundation-funded postdoc project Experiments as vehicles of innovation? Exploration and evaluation of experimentation practices in sustainability transformations. The study focuses on the contributions of experiments to sustainability transformation processes and explores the kinds of futures that they suggest. It explores experiments with a practice-based perspective and examines the ways in which the relationships between experimenting practices and other practices shape the transformation process. It traces the trajectories of experiments and transformation processes through three case studies that examine urban experiments in sustainable lifestyles in Smart Kalasatama, experiments in autonomous transportation with robot buses and organizational experiments at the Finnish Tax Administration.

My PhD thesis The construction of the hybrid package: Evolution of product concepts and production concepts through experiments with artefacts focused on sociomaterial innovation practices. The thesis challenges our understanding of innovation by demonstrating the interdependency between the development of products, production technology and production practices over the course of the innovation process. The study of the development of a hybrid package for food products highlights the participation of various artefacts - such as concepts, models and prototypes - in the development efforts together with people from companies, their customers, suppliers and university partners, whose engagements shape the innovation process and its outcomes.

Previously, I have worked for several research projects with workplaces, especially with manufacturing companies (in packaging, renewable energy, transportation industries, etc.). In these projects I have collaborated with researchers and practitioners from different fields, including education, business and economics, mechanical engineering, computer science, human-computer interaction and design. The most recent projects have focused on examining evolving business models through innovation processes, on work practices in knowledge work, and on planning and scheduling activities in production control.