Mikko Salmela

• Presentation
• CV
• Research outputs

 

Academic profile

AoS: Philosophy of Emotions, Philosophy of Sociality, Philosophical Psychology, Political Psychology, History of Finnish Philosophy, Interdisciplinarity

AoC: Social and Political Philosophy

 

Academic degrees

1999                         Title of Docent (practical philosophy), University of Helsinki

1998                         D. Soc.Sc., University of Helsinki (eximia cum laude approbator)

1995                         Lic. Soc.Sc., University of Helsinki (laudatur)

1992                         M. Soc.Sc, University of Helsinki, (eximia cum laude approbator)

Other education and training, qualifications and skills

2017                         University Leadership Program, (8 ECTS), University of Helsinki

2014                         Psychology (61 ECTS), University of Helsinki

Present position

1/2020–                   Associate Professor, Center for Subjectivity Research, Department of Communication. University of Copenhagen

 

Previous positions

1/2019–12/2019    Head of Discipline, Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki

8/2014–12/2019    University Researcher, Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki

8/2009–7/2014      Academy Researcher, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki

7/2008–7/2009      University Researcher, University of Helsinki, Department of Social and Moral             Philosophy

8/2006–7/2007      Academy Researcher, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki

8/2004–7/2006      University Researcher, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University

                               of Helsinki

10/2003–5/2004    Professor(acting), Department Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki

8/2001–9/2003      Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki

5/1992–7/2001      Researcher, Department of Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki

9/2002–6/2005      Visiting teacher, University of Vaasa

1992–2008              Part-time teacher, Open University, University of Helsinki

1991–1995              Visiting teacher, Faculty of Law,University of Lapland

 

Research funding and leadership

9/2016–8/2020 Academy of Finland research project “Interdisciplining the university – towards sustainable knowledge production”, Principal Investigator.

1/2018–12/2020 Kone Foundation research project “Naapuridialogien affektiiviset lähtökohdat” (Affective Foundations of Neiborhood Dialogues), Principal Investigator.

1/2017–12/2018 NOS-HS-project “The philosophy and practice of improvisation”, Principal Investigator

 

International visits and most important research grants

8/2009–11/2009    LMU München, Dept. of Philosophy, Alexander von Humboldt fellowship

8/2006–7/2007      LMU München, Dept. of Philosophy, Alexander von Humboldt fellowship

9/2001–5/2002      University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Philosophy

 

Teaching and examination of doctoral dissertations

• Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind (MA course, UCPH, with Thomas Szanto, spring 2021)
• Political Philosophy (BA course, UCPH, with Kristian Høyer Toft, spring 2021)
• Collective Intentionality (MA course, UCPH, with Felipe León and Dan Zahavi, autumn 2020)
• 30 Graduate and undergraduate courses taught at University of Helsinki, University of Vaasa, University of Lapland, and LMU München between 1991-2017
• 3 examinations of doctoral dissertations at University of Helsinki, University of Tampere, and University of Stockholm

 

Professional service, refereeing, and memberships in academic societies

Referee for 18 journals (Ethics, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Mind, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Explorations, Philosophia (Israel), Emotion Review, The Philosophical Quarterly, dialectica, Synthese, Journal of Social Ontology, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Journal of Value Inquiry, Consciousness & Emotion, Mind & Language, Œconomia – History/Methodology/Philosophy, Perspectives on Science, Ajatus), 1 publisher (Springer), and 1 research agency (Austrian Science Fund)

2001–2004              National Editor, Bibliographie de la Philosophie/Bibliography of Philosophy

2008–2013              Consultant Editor, Nursing Ethics

2018–                       Associate Editor, Emotion Review

2018–                       Member of Editorial Board, Emotions and Society

Memberships in International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE); European Society for Philosophical Study of Emotion (EPSSE); European Sociological Association (ESA); International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP); The Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies; The Finnish Philosophical Society (SFY); The Westermarck Society (Finnish Sociological Association)

 

Language skills

Finnish                     Native language

English                     Excellent

Swedish                   Good

German                   Fair

 

Scientific and social impact of research  

95 publications of which 60 peer-reviewed