We are very happy to welcome our new Writing-up Fellow Onerva Kiianlinna to the KLI.

Onerva Kiianlinna is in the final phase of her PhD at the Doctoral Programme in Philosophy, Arts and Society, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests lie in evolutionary aesthetics, especially in the relationship between philosophical and empirical aesthetics.

Her PhD research project is titled “Aesthetic Judging in Contemporary Evolutionary Aesthetics”. Onerva aims to ‘provide perspectives on how the act of aesthetic judging could and should be understood in contemporary evolutionary aesthetics’.

More recently Onerva's research interest has boadened to include aesthetics of technology and everyday urban experience. Onerva is also the Vice-President of The Finnnish Society for Aesthetics, Secretary of The Nordic Society for Aesthetics, and co-author of the newsletter at The European Society for Aesthetics.

She will be at the KLI for almost six months, from 2 September 2024 to 20 February 2025.

We look forward to learning more about Onerva and her work in the coming days.

Here’s wishing Onerva a wonderful time at time at the KLI, and also in Austria.