[2] She was a visiting PhD student at the Institute for Ethics, Environment, and Public Policy at Lancaster University and submitted her doctoral thesis to the University of Turku on Animal Individuality: Moral and Cultural Categorisations.

Her book Eläinten moraalinen arvo (Vastapaino 2004) is considered the first commercially published Finnish monograph dedicated solely to animal ethics.

[5] Aaltola is a frequent media commentator on animal issues.

Her accounts, which focus on animal ethics, have around 45 000 followers combined.

[8] Her brother is Mika Aaltola, the ex-director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.