Marjaana Puurtinen
PhD, Title of Docent
marjaana.puurtinen@utu.fi +358 29 450 3636 +358 50 339 4928 Assistentinkatu 5 Turku Office: 430 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1972-2268 |
Areas of expertise
Expertise development; Visual expertise; Epistemic Cognition; Music; History; Eye tracking
Expertise development; Visual expertise; Epistemic Cognition; Music; History; Eye tracking
Biography
Formerly Penttinen.
Education and degrees
- 2019: Adjunct Professor (title of docent), Faculty of Education, University of Oulu
- 2016: Master of Arts (European and World History), University of Turku
- 2013: PhD (Education), University of Turku
- 2006: Master of Arts (Education), University of Turku
Recent academic positions
- 2021-2026: Academy Research Fellow, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku
- 2019- (on leave 2021-2026) University Lecturer, Dept. of Teacher Education. Including research duties at the Functional Foods Forum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku
- 2017-2018: Senior Researcher, Dept. of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku (part-time)
- 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku. (part-time)
- 2015-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku.
Selected administrative duties
- Coordinator, Turku Eye-tracking Laborotories
- Board member, University of Turku Graduate School
- Vice-director, Doctoral Programme on Learning, Teaching and Learning Environments
- Board member, Executive Board of Research development, Faculty of Education
Other skills
- Folk musician, arranger, composer and music pedagogue.
Research
Funded research projects
- PI/Academy Research Fellow, "Eye on history: How experts and novices deal with visual representations of the past". Research Council of Finland, 2021-2026.
- Researcher at the Functional Foods Forum, "Senses and Food" team. Research Council of Finland (funding for research profiling at Finnish universities), 2019-2021.
- Consortium coordinator and post-doctoral researcher, "Reading music: Eye movements and the development of expertise". Prof. Erkki Huovinen (PI), University of Jyväskylä and Royal College of Music in Stockholm & Prof. Hans Gruber (PI), University of Regensburg and University of Turku. Research Council of Finland, 2014-2018.
- PI/Post-doctoral Researcher, "Looking at music: Eye movements and the development of music-reading skill". Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015-2017.
- Co-applicant and post-doctoral researcher, "Visual literacy as part of expertise in history". Prof. Arja Virta (PI), Marjaana Puurtinen and Markus Nivala. Finnish Cultural Foundation, announced in 2013.
- PhD candidate, The Finnish Doctoral Programme in Education and Learning (funding for 4,5 years), announced in 2006.
Teaching
- Primary supervisor for one completed PhD thesis and primary/secondary/third supervisor for five PhD Researchers at the Faculty of Education, Univ. of Turku.
- Supervisor for over 70 MA or BA theses at the Dept. of Teacher Education, Univ. of Turku.
- Extensive experience in, e.g., teaching research methods and reporting in educational sciences.
Publications
- Kuvat historiallisen tiedon tuottamisen välineenä: episteemisen kognition näkökulma (2026)
- Ennen ja nyt : Historian tietosanomat
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Producing the Past With the Digital: Virtual Reality as Remediation in History Museum's Presentation Practice (2026)
- Curator: The Museum Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Visual Expertise in History: Historians’ and Novices’ Visual Processing and Interpretation of Historical Images (2026)
- Journal of expertise
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Regrounding Inquiry-Based Learning in History: A Study of Historians’ Epistemic Processes (2025)
- Cognition and Instruction
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Cognitive Mechanisms in Temporally Controlled Rhythm Reading: Evidence From Eye Movements (2023)
- Music Perception
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Aims in the practice of historiography: An interview study with Finnish historians (2022)
- Historical Encounters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Historians’ criteria for appraising historiography: An interview study (2022)
- Proceedings : International Conference of the Learning Sciences
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Investigating visual attention toward foods in a salad buffet with mobile eye tracking (2021)
- Food Quality and Preference
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Soi torpat ja salongit - Spel i stuga och salong (2021) Marianne Maans, Marjaana Puurtinen
(F1 Published independent work of art) - Food Consumption and Emotions at a Salad Lunch Buffet in a Multisensory Environment (2020)
- Foods
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



