Maria Ruotsalainen (PhD) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the representations gender and nationality in Overwatch esports. She is furthermore interested in questions of equity and equality in esports and esports fandom. She is a board member of the Finnish Game Research Society and the international Esports Research Network.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5727-5820