Dr Otto Pipatti is a researcher in sociology and social anthropology at the University of Helsinki, with both historical and contemporary interests in evolutionary and biosocial approaches to human behaviour.
His doctoral thesis, Edward Westermarck’s Moral and Social Theory, was completed in 2017 and published by Routledge in 2019. Pipatti was a visiting researcher at the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) in 2022–2023. He is currently working on Westermarck’s intellectual biography.