Prof. Dr. Ossi Naukkarinen will become the new Vice Rector for Research at the University of the Arts (Uniarts) Helsinki (Finland) on 1 September 2025. He was previously Professor at the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki. He was also vice rector for research in 2018–2023 and the vice dean for the School of Arts, Design and Architecture there in 2012–2018. He has published books and articles on various themes in aesthetics, in journals such as Contemporary Aesthetics, Aisthesis, and Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. His publications have also been translated into Spanish, Slovenian, Italian and Chinese. One of his articles received the Academic author of the year / Vuoden tiedekynä -prize (Kone Foundation, 2012) in the category of social sciences. Ossi Naukkarinen specializes in questions of everyday aesthetics, environmental aesthetics and the nature of aesthetics as an academic discipline. He has also written about visual arts, artification and aesthetic footprints. Currently, he is interested in the possibilities offered by digital humanities.