Heidi Harju-Luukkainen is a professor and vice director of the university consortium Chydenius at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). She works also as a professor at Nord University (Norway). She has published more than 270 scholarly works and has participated in more than 40 projects globally. Harju-Luukkainen has worked in multiple countries at high-level research universities. She has developed education programs for universities across the globe and has been a PI of PISA sub-assessments in Finland. Her research interests are in early childhood education, special education and higher education.