| March 23, 1973 | Born, Rauma, Finland |
| 1992 | Matriculation Examination Uotilanrinteen lukio Rauma, Finland. |
| 1994-1997 | Student Representative Department of Asian and African Studies, Board of Directors University of Helsinki, Finland. |
| 1997 | B.A. in East Asian Studies University of Helsinki, Finland. |
| 1997-98 | Exchange Student University of California, Berkeley. |
| 1999 | M.A. in East Asian Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. |
| 1999-2000 | ASLA-Fulbright Fellowship for Graduate Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
| 2000-2001 | President Archaeology Graduate Student Association >University of California, Los Angeles. |
| 2000 | Reader Department of Art History University of California, Los Angeles. |
| 2000 | Research Assistant Department of Art History University of California, Los Angeles. |
| 2001 | Teaching Assistant Department of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles. |
| 2001-2002 | Fieldwork, China under fellowships from the Academy of Finland (Suomen Akatemia) and CIMO (Center for International Mobility, Finland). |
| 2003 | Lecturer University of California, Los Angeles, Extension. |
| 2002 | Archaeologist. American Expedition to Tell Mozan/Urkesh. |
| 2004 | Acting Unit Director. American Expedition to Tell Mozan/Urkesh. |
| 2004-2005 | Dissertation Year Fellowship Graduate Division University of California, Los Angeles. |
| 2005 | Unit Director. American Expedition to Tell Mozan/Urkesh |
| 2005 | Research Associate. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2005 | Visiting Lecturer. Rupercht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany |
| PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS | |
| 2002. | "The Royal Consort Fu Hao of the Shang, circa 1200 B.C.E." In Hammond Ken, ed., The Human Tradition in Premodern China: p. 1-13. Scholarly Resources Inc. Wilmington, Delaware. |
| 2003. | Pursuing the Social Role of Eating at a Shang Bronze Manufacturing Site in Anyang, Henan Province China. First Steps. UCLA Friends of Archaeology, 16th Annual Symposium, May 10, 2003. |
| 2004. | The Social Role of Eating in the Context of Shang Bronze Manufacturing. Paper presented at the Society for East Asian Archaeology Conference, Daejeon, Korea, June 16-19, 2004. |
| 2004. | Working with Previously Excavated Materials: How to Approach Gender and Labor Organization? Paper presented at the Chachmool 2004: Que(e)rying Archaeology, 15th Anniversary Gender Conference, University of Calgary, November 11-14, 2004. |
| 2005. | Foodways and the Organization of Bronze Manufacturing in Late Shang Dynasty (ca. 1300-1045 BCE) Anyang. Paper presented at the Society For American Archaeology, 70th Annual Conference at Salt Lake City, Utah, March 30-April 3, 2005. |
| accepted for publication | "Working with Previously Excavated Materials: How to Approach Gender and Labor Organization?". To be published in the Chacmool 2004 conference publication. |
| 2003 | Assistant archaeologist. A18 In lab work focused on plotting, object descriptions, and templates |
| 2004 | Acting Unit Director/Assistant Archaeologist. J2 Did everything together with Alexia Pavan. |
| 2005 | Unit Director. J2. Focus on daily strategy of excavation and directing assisting archaeologists In lab work mostly daily journals and plotting, keeping track of stratigraphy. |