Published over 250 peer-reviewed interdisciplinary, methodological, and empirical studies, two books, and more than a dozen editorials; received several international awards such as best paper at LAK, ICCE, SITE, TEEM; awarded the Europe’s Emerging Scholar Award by SOLAR in 2023; secured funding from the Academy of Finland (as Principal Investigator) and the Swedish Research Council (as Co-Principal Investigator); serves on the editorial boards of journals like Transactions of Learning Technologies, British Journal of Education Technologies, and PLOS ONE; delivers invited keynote addresses at international conferences and collaborates with over a hundred researchers.
Research Experience
Leads UEF’s Learning Analytics Unit, which has been recognized as Europe’s most productive learning analytics lab by Scopus and Web of Science over the past five years (2019-2024).
Education
PhD in Learning Analytics from Stockholm University, Sweden; Postdoctoral position at Université Paris Cité, France; Docent in Learning Analytics from the University of Oulu, Finland.
Background
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Eastern Finland, leading UEF’s Learning Analytics Unit. Research interests include learning analytics, artificial intelligence, big data, network science, the science of science, and medicine.
Miscellany
Offers consultations to governmental organizations and companies; contributes to the evaluation of the World Academy of Sciences (a UNESCO organization).