Draft:Mikko Tolonen

Mikko Sakari Tolonen (born August 5, 1976, in Espoo, Finland) is a digital humanities scholar. He is currently a professor of Digital Humanities in the University of Helsinki. He specializes in the intellectual history and philosophy of the 18th century, focusing on the era's ideological developments.

Between 2005 and 2006, Mikko Tolonen undertook doctoral research at Trinity College within the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD in History in 2010 at the University of Helsinki.

Between 2010 and 2015, Mikko Tolonen served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Philosophical Psychology, Morality, and Politics Research Unit, an Academy of Finland Centre for Excellence in Research (2010-2012), and at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies (2012-2015). Additionally, he was a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University of St Andrews, Department of Philosophy, during 2012–2013. From 2015 to 2017, Mikko Tolonen also held a position at the National Library of Finland, where he focused on the research of digital resources, particularly in projects related to digitized newspapers.

He achieved the title of docent in general history at the University of Helsinki on December 15, 2015. His current role, since August 1, 2023, is as a full professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki.

Mikko Tolonen has served on the executive board of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) and chairing the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB).

Moreover, Tolonen has been involved in thirteen academic projects such as ”COMHIS: Helsinki Computational History Group” as the principal investigator and “HPC-HD: High Performance Computing for the Detection and Analysis of Historical Discourses” as the project manager.

Mikko Tolonen has received six academic awards. He was awarded with the Best Paper Awards at the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN) conferences in both 2019 and 2020. Tolonen was also the recipient of the Open Science and Research Award in 2016 given by Finnish Ministry of Education.

Selected Publications

 * Tolonen, M. S. "Mandeville and Hume: Anatomists of Civil Society."
 * Rosson, D. E., Mäkelä, E., Vaara, V., Mahadevan, A., Ryan, Y. C., & Tolonen, M. "Reception Reader: Exploring Text Reuse in Early Modern British Publications."
 * Zhang, J., Ryan, Y. C., Rastas, I., Ginter, F., Tolonen, M., & Babbar, R. "Detecting Sequential Genre Change in Eighteenth-Century Texts."
 * Rastas, I., Ryan, Y. C., Tiihonen, I. L. I., Qaraei, M., Repo, L., Babbar, R., Mäkelä, E., Tolonen, M., & Ginter, F. (2022). "Explainable Publication Year Prediction of Eighteenth Century Texts with the BERT Model." In N. Tahmasebi, S. Montariol, A. Kutuzov, S. Hengchen, H. Dubossarsky, & L. Borin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2022 (LChange 2022) (pp. 68–77). The Association for Computational Linguistics.