Kristiina Huttunen is a research fellow at the Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. Prior to joining the Aalto University in 2011, she worked as a Researcher at Labour Institute for Economic Research, and as a post-doctoral fellow at Uppsala University. She received her Ph.D from University of Helsinki in 2005. Her research focuses on topics such as consequences of job displacements, employment effects of low-wage subsidies and fertility behavior of couples. She has published research articles in journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of the European Economic Association.

She joined IZA as Research Fellow in May 2012.