Katariina Salmela-Aro served as a professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Helsinki since 2018 and as Academy Professor from 2021 onwards. Prior to this, from 2004 to 2018, she worked as a professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä.
Salmela-Aro was a well-known and prominent figure in the Finnish and international scientific community, and her work covered a wide range of topics in the fields of education and psychology.
The university community remembers their Academy professor and colleague Katariina Salmela-Aro with warmth and shares in the grief of her family.