Katariina Salmela-Aro#
| Membership Number: | 6337 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/katariina-salmela-aro |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1901-4712 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 9/2021 - present Academy professor, University of Helsinki, Finland,
- 3/2019 - 7/2019 Marie Curie Visiting professor, ETH, Switzerland,
- 2018 Professor, Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2017 Visiting professor, MSU, US
- 2015 - 2021 Visiting professor, IoE, UCL, UK
- 2009 - 2013 Research director, Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2005 - 2017 Professor, Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- 2003 - 2005 Fellow, Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2001 - 2003 Acting professor, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- 1999 - 2000 Post-doc, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Educational psychology, motivation, educational transitions, optimal learning moments. school reforms
- Longitudinal studies, experience sampling method, interventions,
- Socio-emotional skills, grit, resilience, curiosity
- Pandemic, climate change, wellbeing
- Developmental psychology, transitions, youth development, digital skills
- Wellbeing, engagement, burnout, scale development
- Work psychology, burnout, engagement, principals, teachers
Honours and Awards
- Election to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, chair of psychology and education
- President-elect, International Association for Applied Psychology, IAAP (div. 5, school psychology)
- Past-President, European Association for Developmental Psychology, EADP
- Past-Secretary General, International Society for Study of Behavioral Development, ISSBD
- 2020 ISSBD Fellow
- 2022 Helsinki science award 2022
- Council member, European Association for Adolescent Research, EARA
- Associate Editor, European Psychologist, official journal for EFPA
- 2021 - 2026 Academy professor, Academy of Finland, (1.2 milj €)
- 2021 - 2024, Strategic Funding Council, Academy of Finland, EduRESCUE, Resient school and education, Pandemic program, total 4 milj.€, Co-PI, 700 000€
- Strategic Funding Council, Academy of Finland, FLUX, Family formation in flux: causes, consequences and possible futures, total 6 milj€, 2021-2027 (WP leader youth and family formation), 600 000€
- 2021 - 2025 2 year preschool RCT, total 1.2 milj.€, Ministry of Education and Culture, 300 000€
- 2021 - 2024, Academy of Finland, Co-PI, PI M Kulmala, ClimComp, Climate change and young people, 1.5 milj€
- 2020 - 2025 EU Infra RI, Coordinate project: European Cohort Study, PI G Pollack, UK. PI Finland Salmela-Aro, 5 milj.€ and ESFRI Roadmap 2021 GUIDE/Coordinate
- 2020 - 2023 Horizon2020-C’SC6-Transformations, ySkills, youth Skills, total 3.5 milj€, Finnish PI Salmela-Aro
- 2020 - 2024 Marie Curie Innovative Training Network, Gender diversity, 4.2 milj €
- 2019 - 2022 Agents, Social media use among young people, Academy of Finland Consortium, WP leader, total, 1 milj.€
- Digital revolution and young people, 2017-2022, Academy of Finland, PI, 800 000€
- 2016 - 2021 PIRE, Crafting Optimal Learning moments in science, Academy of Finland and NSF, PI, 1 088 456€
- 2014 - 2020 LEAD, Future learning skills, Academy of Finland, PI, 883 000€
