A short introduction

Welcome to my web-pages. Surprisingly you have found your way here. These pages introduce the world as I see it, and you are welcome to take a look! Let's start by introductions...

First and foremost, I'm a scientist. Of course I'm a lot of other things, and you can find out more about me using the navigation bars in the left, but that is probably what defines me most. That doesn't mean that I'm a mad scientist, or that I've committed my whole life for science. No, it just means that I am interested about the world as a whole and want to know how it works. I'm not really one of those people who want to limit science to a certain aspect, or view, or field, for me it is an innate interest to learn more and gain more understanding. Like Alexander von Humboldt said: "Nature is sublimely eloquent" - to understand nature, you must feel the ecstasy as well as grasp the mathematics. Sometimes it seems I can't grasp neither, but the main point is that science should not be narrowsighted. It's you yourself (and the funding agencies) that defines what it is about.

What kind of scientist isn't that important, but if we go down that road, I am a palaeontologist, or to be more precise, a palaeobiologist and palaeoclimatologist. At the moment I'm a Post-Doc researcher at the University of Helsinki (Dept. Geosciences and Geography), and a visiting scholar at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). My main interests are climates, ecosystem development, mammals and their ecomorphology in the past and present (mainly the last 23 million years, so in long timescales)

You can find out more about me, my hobbies, background etc. from specific pages by using the navigation bar on the top. You'll also find links that I use for work and fun. Again, Welcome to investigate my world!