I am a master student of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Jyväskylä. In my bachelor thesis I focused on bird migration, which led my interest on species, species diversity and identification. My interest on invertebrates has grown during my studies and become my main interest. I find many invertebrate groups fascinating, but I’ve mainly focused on collecting and identifying Pseudoscorpiones, Opiliones, and some Heteroptera and larvae of Trichoptera. In my master thesis I’m studying Cecidomyiidae diversity in Finland, in collaboration with the University of Oulu and the Provincial Museum of Lapland. I participated in a spider identification and ecology course of University of Helsinki, and now I’m continuing standardized spider inventory research at the Finnish Museum of Natural History by sorting and identifying samples collected from Lammi and Kilpisjärvi biological stations.