Education: Animal Trainer, Competence-based qualification (Kao 2011) with internships at The Guide Dog School, The Finnish Society of Hearing and Aid Dogs, The Helsinki Society for Animal Protection, The Police Dog Training Centre and Kainuu Vocational Collage: training projects of civilian and working pups. Canine Massage Therapist, Preparatory training for competence-based qualification (Amiedu 2017). MA (Helsinki University 2003)

Projects: Human ID Scent Tracking for civilian dog handlers by Ilkka Hormila 2010: participant with own dog, The CogniDog Project (Eye-tracking camera research perception in dogs & Thermal imaging research on animal emotions, Helsinki University 2012, 2015): participant with own dogs, Viper Detection Project, Animal Trainers of Finland 2013: participant with own dog, Hypo Dog Pilot, together with Päivi, 2013-2014

Also: Founder at Copycat

It’s the venue that also inspired the name for the seminar: “Hau” is what dogs say in Finnish when barking. A wordplay that can only be understood by Finns (like so many words and manners in this little northern country). However from the first seminar we have aimed to lure participants from all over the world and are happy to see that the amount of foreign quests has grown from seminar to seminar. Thank you for coming to Finland! Special thanks also for those of you who have attended all three seminars: well done! And for our brilliant speakers through the years, one more time: KIITOS!