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Onerva Kiianlinna (https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/onerva-sohvi-ottilia-kiianlinna) is a late-stage doctoral student at the Doctoral Programme in Philosophy, Arts and Society, University of Helsinki. Her PhD research project “Aesthetic Judging in Contemporary Evolutionary Aesthetics” has been funded by The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (a three-year grant in 2020–2022) and Alfred Kordelin Foundation (a one-year grant in 2023). Onerva‘s research interests lie in evolutionary aesthetics, and more generally, in the relationship between philosophical and empirical aesthetics. Recently, her research has expanded towards aesthetics of technology and everyday urban experience. Onerva is the vice president of The Finnnish Society for Aesthetics, secretary of The Nordic Society for Aesthetics, and co-author of the newsletter at The European Society for Aesthetics.