Julia Katila, academy research fellow and social psychologist in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, defended her dissertation on touch between mothers and children in 2018. Throughout her over 10 years of research in EMCA-based interaction analysis of embodied interaction and touch, she has, among other things, developed an embodied perspective on the video analysis of interaction. Her recent research interests include the intertwinement of touch, affect, and embodied interaction in intimate settings and the saliency of affect and embodied interaction in healthcare contexts.