Career
Virrankoski was professor in Finland"s history at Turku University from 1978 to 1992. Virrankoski has in his research focused on economic and social history. He has also written the first academic student book about Finland"s economic history (1975), two books about North American Indians, and a work on Ostrobothnia (1997) and a biography of the musician Heikki Klemetti (2004).