Outi Karhuvaara joined Papula-Nevinpat in August 2024 as a trainee patent attorney and currently works as a patent specialist.
Outi’s areas of expertise include biotechnology, chemistry, and food technology, with a particular focus on microbiology, cell and molecular biology, genetic engineering, bioinformatics, and biomedicine. Her previous work experience has provided her with extensive expertise in biotechnology and biomedical applications, such as immunological measurement and diagnostic methods, genetic modification of microbes, and research methods for protein structure and function.
She has worked as a researcher and PhD student in an interdisciplinary research group focusing on immunology and environmental medicine, and as a research assistant in a molecular biology laboratory.
Before becoming a trainee patent attorney, she worked at Papula-Nevinpat as an IP Administrator.
Outi graduated with a Master of Science in January 2018, majoring in biochemistry.