Hanni Muukkonen, Ph.D. is a professor in Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu, Finland. Her research focuses on collaborative learning, knowledge creation, learning analytics, and ethics in AI. Muukkonen’s research has widely contributed (>100 peer reviewed publications) to understanding interaction between learning design, technology-mediated collaboration, and students’ competences in co-creation and interdisciplinary collaboration. An example is the EARLI Emerging Field Group funding: Unpacking collaboration - Multimodal collaboration analytics and mixed methods designs for exploring collaborative problem solving (2022-24). In recent projects, she has focused on learning analytics and AI in education to investigate support for students’ academic paths and advanced understanding of student transitions across educational levels. She has recently contributed as a member in the European Commission Expert group on Artificial Intelligence and Data in education and training. Orcid: 0000-0002-1086-1352.