Sonsoles López Pernas

Sonsoles López Pernas is a Senior Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, School of Computing. Her work focuses on game-based learning, learning analytics, data engineering, and AI in education. She develops open-source educational software and applies quantitative methods like machine learning and network analysis.

• Current projects include CRETIC (clinical reasoning analysis) and IGLUE (game-based learning).

Research Trends:
Her recent articles emphasize idiographic approaches to education, transition network analysis, and complex dynamic systems in learning. She explores AI-human collaboration and generative AI limitations in pedagogy.

Methodological Contributions:
Author of tutorials on sequence analysis, Markov models, and R packages for educational data analysis (e.g., tna, chatgptscrapeR).