Timo Myllyntaus is professor of Finnish history at Turku University, Finland. He earned a Ph.D. in economic history at the London School of Economics. He has worked as a research fellow at the Academy of Finland and as a Visiting Scholar at Clare Hall College, Cambridge University. Interdisciplinarity characterizes his academic work, which focuses on four fields: society, economy, technology and environment. The history of small countries is one of his main research interests. He is Secretary General of ICOHTEC.