CES affiliates

CES affiliates are researchers of European Studies at the University of Helsinki or have close collaboration with the CES.  If you are interested in becoming a CES research affiliate, you can contact the CES director for more information.
Anna Elomäki

Docent, Doctor of Philosophy

University of Tampere, Faculty of Social Sciences

Ongoing research projects:

  • Academy Research Fellow Project

Expertise and research interests:

  • Feminist political economy
  • European Union
  • Economic policy
  • Equality policy
  • Gender-responsive budgeting
  • Decision-making processes
  • Feminist political ecology

Email: anna.elomaki(a)uni.fi
Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen

University Lecturer

University of Jyväskylä, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy

Ongoing research projects:

Expertise and research interests:

  • Political thought
  • Democratic theory
  • Ecological transformation
  • Resilience
  • Conspiracy theories
  • Use of expert knowledge in politics
  • Post‑truth politics

Email: ari-elmeri.hyvonen(a)helsinki.fi
Zoë Jay

Postdoctoral researcher

Ongoing projects:

Expertise and research interests:

  • Popular culture and world politics
  • Emotions and affect
  • Fan cultures and fans as actors in world politics
  • International politics of the Eurovision Song Contest
  • Critical pedagogies

Email: zoe.jay(a)helsinki.fi
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Annastiina Kallius

Postdoctoral researcher

Ongoing projects:

  • Project "2020-luvun kilpailevat Eurooppa-visiot illiberaalin ja liberaalin tiedontuotannon valossa" (Emil Aaltonen Foundation 2024-2026)

Expertise and research interests:

  • Social anthropology and ethnography
  • Epistemology
  • Liberalism and illiberalism
  • Fascism
  • Europe and EU politics
  • Migration

Email: annastiina.kallius(a)helsinki.fi
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William King

Core Fellow (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)

PhD in International History (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Ongoing research projects:

  • Petitioning the Parliament: The European Parliament, Democracy, and Citizens, 1973-99

Expertise and research interests:

  • European integration
  • British history
  • Political history
  • Democracy

Email: william.king(a)helsinki.fi
Timo Miettinen

Academy Research Fellow
Philosophy

Ongoing projects:

  • the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie)
  • Rethinking the Intellectual Foundations of Ordoliberalism (Academy of Finland, 2021-2026)

Expertise and research interests:

  • Modern philosophy
  • Continental philosophy
  • Phenomenology
  • Political philosophy
  • Europe
  • European integration
  • Political economy
  • Economic constitution
  • History of liberalism
  • Neoliberalism
  • Ordoliberalism

Email: timo.pa.miettinen(a)helsinki.fi
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Manuel Müller

Non-Resident Fellow (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)

Editor of

PhD in Philosophy

Expertise and research interests:

  • EU institutions and institutional reform
  • Supranational democracy
  • Elections and political parties in Europe
  • European public sphere
  • Narratives on the purpose of European integration

Email: manuel.mueller(a)foederalist.eu
Laura Nordström

PhD in Political Science 

BA in Humanities

Ongoing research projects:

  • Seeing Like a Tech Firm: Advocacy in the Era of Platform Capitalism ()

Expertise and research interests:

  • EU decision-making and institutions
  • Study of power
  • European economic governance
  • Global political economy
  • Lobbying
  • The power of expert knowledge
  • Technology policy
  • Interest groups
  • Think tanks
  • European banking and debt crisis

Email: laura.nordstrom(a)helsinki.fi
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Karolina Stenlund

Postdoctoral researcher

Ongoing projects:

  • MORALMEM - Memory Regimes and Legal frames

Expertise and research interests:

  • Legal history
  • History
  • Law and memory
  • Civil law

Email: karolina.stenlund(a)helsinki.fi
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Miika Tervonen

University researcher

Ongoing projects:

  • Team Leader at the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie) subproject 3, “Migration and the narratives of Europe as an “Area of freedom, security and justice”
  • Principal investigator of the research project ”Gatekeeping the Nation: Deportation at Finnish Borderscapes from the Cold War to Europeanisation” (, Research Council of Finland 2022-2026)
  • Book project  ”Writing the Past White: Nation, Race and Coloniality in Finnish National Histories”

Expertise and research interests:

  • Migration, borders, and deportations
  • Minority politics
  • Nationalism
  • Historiography

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Email: miika.tervonen(a)helsinki.fi
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Katja Vallinkoski

Visiting researcher

Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki

Expertise and research interests:

  • Radicalisation
  • Extremism
  • Terrorism
  • Prevention of radicalisation and extremism
  • Counterterrorism
  • School attacks

Email: katja.vallinkoski(a)helsinki.fi
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Johanna Vuorelma

University researcher

Ongoing research projects:

  • Irony in international politics (2021-2025)
  • (WELGO, 2021-2024)
  • , Sotilaallisen vallan kieli suomalaisessa demokratiassa (2022-2026)

Email: johanna.vuorelma(a)helsinki.fi
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Matti Välimäki

Postdoctoral researcher 

Ongoing projects:

  • Researcher in the project ”Gatekeeping the Nation: Deportation at Finnish Borderscapes from the Cold War to Europeanisation” (, Research Council of Finland 2022-2026)

Expertise and research interests:

  • Development of migration politics and legislation 
  • Forced migration 
  • Practices of the authorities regarding foreigners
  • Science communication 
  • Political communication and parties

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Email: matti.t.valimaki(a)helsinki.fi
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