Draft:Pertti Saariluoma

Pertti Saariluoma
Born	(1951-01-01) January 1, 1951 Stockholm
Title	Professor

Pertti Olavi Saariluoma (born 1 January 1951) is a Finnish professor, founder of Finnish cognitive science and a cognitive psychologist. He has studied human information processing, in particular thinking, human-technology interaction and innovation processes. His area of research has also included the theory of science, particularly the foundations of scientific thinking.

Saariluoma is Research Director and Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä.

Biography

Pertti Saariluoma was born on 1.1.1951 in Stockholm. The family moved back to Finland shortly afterwards. During his youth, Saariluoma lived and went to school in Turku, where he also began his studies in philosophy and psychology in 1974. He wrote his doctoral thesis "Coding problem spaces in chess" on the thinking of experts at the University of Turku in 1981. Saariluoma is a FIDE Master in chess.

Pertti Saariluoma has studied and worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford (Alan Allport), Carnegie Mellon University (Herbert Simon), and the University of Cambridge (Alan Baddeley). More recently, he has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Aberdeen (Robert Logie), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis IIASA in Austria (Wolfgang Lutz), and as a visiting professor at the University of Granada (José Cañas) and Eindhoven University of Technology (Matthias Rauterberg).

Saariluoma founded the research area of cognitive science in Finland and was the first Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Helsinki from 1996 to 2000. In 2001, he was involved in establishing education in the field in Jyväskylä and has since been a professor of cognitive science at the University of Jyväskylä. Saariluoma has been a docent at the University of Turku, the University of Helsinki and the University of Tampere.

Saariluoma has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Defence (MATINE) from 2012 to 2021, with a special focus on cognitive warfare and security issues. At Saariluoma's initiative, the Society for Cognitive Security was founded in Finland in 2024. He was the first Chairman of the society at that time.

Saariluoma has been given with the decoration of Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland FWR KI.

Pertti Saariluoma has a daughter and a son.

Scientific research

Saariluoma started his scientific career as a cognitive psychologist, interested in the thinking of experts. While doing research at Carnegie Mellon, he became interested in cognitive science and founded the discipline in Finland. His research focused on information processing, attention, memory and especially thinking in talented people.

His research is collected in the books "Chess Players' Thinking" (Routledge 1995) and " Taitavan ajattelun psykologia" (Otava 1990). The foundations of scientific thinking were discussed in "Foundational Analysis" (Routledge 1997), the risks and errors of economic thinking in " Ajattelu työelämässä" (WSOY 2002.) The interaction processes between humans and technology were discussed in " Käyttäjäpsykologia" (WSOY 2004) and in the collections of articles "Future Interaction Design I-II" (Springer 2005, 2009, Antti Pirhonen, Hannakaisa Isomäki). The book "Designing for Life" (Macmillan 2016), co-authored with José Cañas and Jaana Leikka, explores the problem of interaction between humans and technology in a holistic way by questioning the role of technology and technology design in defining human life.

Saariluoma has also studied the history of psychology ("Psykologian historia: kreikkalainen kausi", Gaudeamus 1985), the foundations of population forecasting and innovation processes. He has been particularly interested in examining innovation processes using the tools of thought research and question formulation. He calls this research micro-innovation research.

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