I explore how major diseases like cancer and infectious diseases shape healthcare systems and people's lives. My research focuses on how demographic changes and health policies, such as cancer diagnostics and vaccination, influence healthy individuals living with the expectation of illness. I also examine how citizens respond to vaccine side effects while navigating uncertainty in a healthcare system driven by technological changes and standardized solutions.

I teach courses in medical anthropology as well as ethnographic and sociological methods. As a certified Carpentries instructor, I can provide live instruction in coding and data processing at a foundational level. I supervise both health professionals in the master’s programme and MA students in Anthropology and Human Security who focus on health and illness or combine qualitative and quantitative methods.

As Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, I work to develop the educational programmes at ARTS in response to an increasingly digital and AI-supported reality. My work focuses on strengthening the application of anthropological thinking in clinical and interdisciplinary contexts, as well as on talent development among students and early-career researchers with health-anthropological profiles. Previously, as Director of the Anthropology Research Programme, I contributed to supporting research projects, networks, and knowledge exchange through workshops, talent programmes, and conferences.