I serve as the Project Manager and Principal Investigator of the Digital Transformation for NeuroDiversity Inclusion in Africa and Asia (AAN-DI) project, a European Commission–funded Erasmus+ CBHE initiative that promotes inclusive digital transformation in higher education institutions in India (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and University of Kashmir in India and Great Lakes University Kisumu and Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kenya. University of Jyväskylä is the coordinating institution and the University of Valencia, Spain, the programme country partner.
The project aims to empower neurodivergent individuals by enhancing their skills, employability, wellbeing, and self-reliance through innovative digital tools tailored to their cognitive and professional needs. It also builds the capacity of higher education institutions to design, implement, and sustain inclusive digital ecosystems.
The AAN-DI consortium unites six universities and twelve associated partner organizations to achieve the following key objectives:
Strengthen institutional research and training capacity on digital inclusion and neurodiversity.
Develop three certified open-access training modules in:
Digital Wellbeing and Inclusion,
Transversal Digital Competencies for Neurodiversity, and
Sustainable Digital Transformation for Neurodiversity.
Enhance international collaboration through blended mobility programs for staff and students.
Establish the NeuroWiz Hub, a flagship digital ecosystem designed to support neurodivergent persons’ professional skills, mental health, and wellbeing, while advancing innovation and digital inclusion across partner regions.
Through AAN-DI, I coordinate a global network of researchers, educators, and innovators committed to creating inclusive, technology-driven pathways for lifelong learning and neurodiversity empowerment.
My research is multidisciplinary and combines the fields of developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, emotion regulation, and digital technology use and interventions, with a strong focus on resilience and adaptive functioning across the lifespan. I am particularly interested in how children and adolescents adapt, cope, and thrive amid challenges such as continuously changing digital environments, environmental disadvantages, multilingual and language barriers as well as neurodevelopmental diversity.
Key research themes include:
