Pasi Fränti is a Professor at the University of Eastern Finland, a position held since 2000. Prior experience includes serving as an Opponent at Tampere University of Technology in 2008 and working as a Post-doctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland from 1996 to 1999. Pasi Fränti began academic career as an Assistant at the University of Turku from 1992 to 1995. Pasi Fränti holds a PhD in Computer Science, obtained from the University of Turku between 1992 and 1994, and an MSc in Computer Science from the same institution, completed from 1987 to 1991.