Katariina Salmela-Aro - Curriculum Vitae#
- Academy professor of Educational Sciences
- PhD in Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Leader of the Minds hub
- Marie Curie Visiting professor ETH Zurich
- Visiting Professor, Institute of Education University College London, Australian Catholic University Sydney and School of Education, Michigan State University and School of Education, University of California Irvine
- Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and chair of psychology and education
- The President-Elect of the Division of School Psychology, International Association of Applied Psychology IAAP
- Council member of the European Association of Adolescent Research EARA
- Past-President of the European Association for Developmental Psychology EADP, previous Secretary General (first female) International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) and expert in OECD Education2030 and OECD Learning Compass
- Director of several ongoing longitudinal studies among young people, such as: FinEdu, LEAD, Gaps
- Currently PI of five large scale Academy of Finland projects, in addition two large national Strategic Research Council projects, four large scale EU projects, project funded by Ministry of Education and Culture, and one by Business Finland
- During the last 10 years PI of 15 projects funded by the Academy of Finland
- Member of the large-scale EU granted EuroCohort aiming to development of a Europe wide longitudinal survey of child and youth well-being
- Katariina Salmela-Aro has published over 300 articles (Google Scholar h-index = 83) and she has given tens of keynote lectures
- She is the Founding member Pathways International Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral fellowship program, and founding member of Academy of Finland Strategic Rsearch Council
- She was Consulting Editor of Developmental Psychology (APA), and she is currently Associate Editor of European Psychologist *She was post-doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin.
- She has supervised 20 PhD, and currently supervises 16 PhD students and 10 post-docs and supervised MCSA European Individual Fellowship. Post-docs supervised by her have received awards for outstanding contributions and research excellence, and many of them are now in leading positions in UK, US, Australia