At the moment my professional dream is to establish some kind of interdisciplinary, and preferably international, research project that could, for example, provide insight into hate speech. In addition to linguists, I would like the team to include a sociologist, a social psychologist, and a computer scientist, which would facilitate many different approaches to the phenomenon. I hope that based on our work there could be some application that would make life more pleasant for people.

I have been somewhat concerned with how so-called extra languages, such as German and French, have been side-lined in primary and secondary schools. We have been unable to create incentives that would encourage students to learn languages. For example the Faculty of Science has already decided to take matriculation examination grades into account when deciding on admission, but this is not the case at the Faculty of Arts. I would like to see more variety in people when it comes to the languages they speak as well. The labour market would also benefit from having people who could speak many languages. I have tried to influence these matters on the boards of the French-Finnish School of Helsinki and the Union of the Finnish-French Associations.

In my private life, I dream of a healthy and happy life surrounded by my family.