Awards

In research, journalism, nonfiction, documentary film, architecture and urban planning

2025

Aalto University Doctoral Thesis Award

2019

Tiedon harava (Rake of Knowledge), for achievements in climate journalism, Finnish Environmental Journalists Association

2011

TunnustusPAANU (Shingle of Acknowledgement), for advancement of ecological design and public environmental consciousness in Finland, Finnish Association of Architects

2008

Honorary Award, for the non-fiction book Ilmastonmuutos. Nyt. (Climate Change. Now.), Lauri Jäntti Foundation

2007

KOURA Award, in the category of best weekly current affairs tv program, for Prisma Studio (working group of 15 members), Koulutusrahasto KOURA

2005

1st Prize, in the category pollution and climate change, for the documentary film The Venus Theory, EarthVision

2005

Prize of the Rector of the Technical University in Zvolen, for the documentary film The Venus Theory, Envirofilm

2004

Special Prize of the Jury, for the documentary film The Venus Theory, Image et Science

1992

3rd Prize, Core Centre of Savonlinna (working group of 9 members), City of Savonlinna & Finnish Association of Architects

1992

Special Honorary Mention, L’Axe Majeur: a series of urban spaces to Paris (student competition, working group of 8 members), Les Ateliers d’été de Cergy

1990

Student Medal, for the work Jazzhole: a bandstand to Tapiola, European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS)