Leena Norros

Research Professor (emerita) Leena Norros is an industrial psychologist working on human factors of complex industrial systems. She received Dr.rer.nat. at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, and Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She created a human factors research team at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and spent most of her career leading the team. Her main interest is the understanding of work activity in real-life contexts, for which she has...See more

Research Professor (emerita) Leena Norros is an industrial psychologist working on human factors of complex industrial systems. She received Dr.rer.nat. at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, and Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She created a human factors research team at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and spent most of her career leading the team. Her main interest is the understanding of work activity in real-life contexts, for which she has created new concepts and methods. She acts as docent at Helsinki University and lectures on human factors at the University of Helsinki and Aalto University. She has published widely and participates actively in international forums of human factors/ergonomics. See less