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I was first trained as veterinarian but developed quickly interest in science and food hygiene. My thesis was about contamination of foods with spoilers in industrial food manufacturing units and it paved the way to my current research interests. I have also been working with pathogenic microbes but my main expertise is associated with species and microbiomes that are causing food spoilage.

I’m originally a microbiologist, but I have also worked with bioinformatics in early drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry. Here I work with bioinformatics, molecular biology and I have a special interest in various phenotype assays related to food spoilage and design of selective media for all types of environmental bacteria. 

I am a Docent in Food Microbiology. My PhD research focused on Bacillus cereus toxins, and during my postdoctoral work, I have studied spoilage microbiota in food. Within our research group, I have specialized in chemical analytical methods. 

The focus of my thesis is on bioinformatics, specifically transcriptomics, which I use to investigate changes in food spoilage microbiomes. I did my bachelor's in Molecular Biosciences here at the University of Helsinki and my master’s in Biosystems Engineering at Aalto University. Besides transcriptomics I do a wide variety of bioinformatics for the group, such as assembly, annotation and phylogenic analyses.  

I am a PhD researcher specializing in the human perception of volatilomes produced by microbiomes during the spoilage of perishable foods. I hold a Master’s degree in Microbiology and Physicochemistry for Food and Wine Processes from L’Institut Agro Dijon, with a focus on soil microbiology and wine production, and a Bachelor's degree in Food Technology from Shoolini University.  I bring interdisciplinary expertise in food microbiology, sensory analysis, and fermentation science. Passionate about global collaboration and scientific discovery, I also enjoy exploring new cultures through travel. 

As a PhD student at the Food Spoilage Microbiomes Group, my research focuses on the microbial mechanisms of food spoilage. Holding a master's degree from the Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy), my current work investigates the roles of Latilactobacillus and Vagococcus spp. in the spoilage of food, particularly meat products. 

I am a PhD student at the University of Helsinki. I use statistics and machine learning to perform insightful analyses of biological data. My research focuses mainly on developing probabilistic methods for modeling time series of omics data.