Joonas S. Martikainen is working as a grant researcher with the Agency as Experience and Capacity: Social Mechanisms, Political Implications project (2025–2029) at the Department of Philosophy, University of Turku, Finland. He was previously a part of the HARMAA: Indirect Philosophy as a Form of Resistance work group at the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include contemporary continental political theory and critical and political phenomenology, focusing on the broader social conditions of meaningful political agency.