Senior researcher Ahonen has worked as a National Project Manager in Finland for PISA studies in cycles 2018, 2022 and 2025. He is also the principal investigator of the DigiConsumers project funded by the Strategic Research Council (the Research Council of Finland) and the REVERS-ED project funded by Horizon Europe. He is also an associate professor (Title of Docent) of educational assessment at the University of Tampere.
His research interests cover a large variety of education research, focusing recently on assessment studies and secondary analysis of PISA data. Previously, he studied the 21st-century skills and psycho-social well-being of schoolchildren.
