Hanna-Riitta Kymäläinen works as a Senior university lecturer and leader of the BSc programme of Agricultural Sciences at the Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. She has the degree of Doctor of Science (Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 2004), Specialist Qualification in Management (University of Helsinki, 2006), the title of Docent (Environmental engineering in agriculture, University of Helsinki, 2007), and the degree of Vocational Teacher (Häme University of Applied Sciences, 2017). She has worked as a teacher at the University of Helsinki since 1991, including research and family breaks in between. During the recent years, she has been involved in several research projects focusing on pedagogy among agriculture students. Other main research topics during her career have been non-food fibres, production hygiene, agricultural by-products, and well-being at work in agriculture. She is a founding member of the Teachers' Academy at the University of Helsinki (2013), a member of the Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland, a member of the Finnish Research Association of University Pedagogy and a member of the Advisory board of the EDULEARN conferences (status May 27, 2024).