Tuomas Tahko specialises in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophical logic, with a particular focus on the metaphysics of science. He is currently a University Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki.

Tuomas has a 2-million euro European Research Council Consolidator Grant on the Metaphysical Unity of Science which he will be bringing to the University of Bristol. The project will last for five years, also starting in September 2018, and will hire three 4-year postdocs and a PhD student in the areas of metaphysics and philosophy of science (see the job-ad).