Dr. Ylirisku works as a University Lecturer of Art Education in Aalto ARTS, the program of Visual Art Education at the Department of Art and Media. Her doctoral dissertation explores environmental art education using a critical posthumanist approach. Ylirisku's current research intersects arts and art education, environmental education, and multispecies research. She is a member of Children of the Anthropocene research group studying the nature-culture relations of children growing up in the environmental crisis. Ylirisku has developed movement-based research practices, inspired by working methods of environmental and performance art.