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Iiris Tuvi (born December 22, 1975) is a Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Tartu's Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Psychology, holding a full-time position since September 2024. She previously served as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University (2020-2023) and has maintained continuous research appointments at the University of Tartu since 2001, progressing through various research positions in psychology and criminology.
Her educational background includes a Doctoral Degree in Psychology (2007) and Master's Degree in Psychology (2003), both from the University of Tartu, with her doctoral dissertation focusing on "Interaction of Object Perception and Visual Attentional Selection Processes" supervised by Talis Bachmann. She also completed post-doctoral studies at Tampere University (2020-2023).
Tuvi's research spans cognitive psychology with specialization in visual perception, children's mental health, cybersecurity education (particularly for girls through the CyberTigers project), and the intersection of psychology with digital environments. Her work demonstrates strong interdisciplinary connections between psychology, education, and digital technology.
Her recent publications (2022-2024) reveal a clear research trajectory focusing on cybersecurity education for girls, children's mental health studies in Estonia, and learning analytics in digital environments. These works demonstrate methodological diversity including ethnography, focus groups, experiments, and questionnaire-based surveys.
- University of Tartu Social Sciences Joint Publication Award (2020) for research on attention distractibility
- Estonian Centre of Behavioral and Health Sciences publication award (2005)
Tuvi actively supervises Master's students and has served on research projects related to children's mental health, cybersecurity education, and digital learning environments. She is a member of the Estonian Psychologists Union and previously served on its Council (2012-2020) and as editor of its newspaper (2009-2020). She has developed and taught courses including "Introduction to Applications of Psychophysiology" and regularly contributes expert commentary to media on children's mental health issues in Estonia.