I am a structural biologist, interested in cell motility and in particular how malaria parasites move and invade their host cells. I did my PhD in structural biology at the University of Oulu, Finland, in 2003. After post-doctoral stays at the EMBL Hamburg Outstation and the Karolinska Institute, I have led my own research group in Oulu since 2008. In parallel, I have been a junior group leader at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research at CSSB/DESY in Hamburg (2009-2015), Academy of Finland Research Fellow (2012-2017), a 20% professor at the University of Bergen (2014-2017), and a visiting scientist at the European XFEL (2015-). Since 2017, my main position is at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, and I also have a 10% professorship and an active research group at the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu. Research in my group is focused on understanding malaria parasite gliding motility at the molecular/atomic level. For this aim, we use a broad range of structural biology and biochemical/biophysical methods.