Jacob Wolf is a research associate at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab. He is passionate about promoting the development of youth computational cultures through the integration of computational literacy in STEM classrooms and beyond.
Dr Nikoleta Yiannoutsou is a scientific officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and Project leader of SELFIE. Her work focuses on the impact of digital technologies in education and the engagement of the school community in developing the digital capacity of schools. She has been working closely with ministries of education across Europe and the European Training Foundation for the piloting and implementation of SELFIE at large scale.
Dr Tamar Fuhrmann is a senior research scientist at Teachers College, Columbia University. She leads studies and research projects at the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab and the FabLearn Program. Her work focuses on designing and developing classroom technologies for learning to examine ways to integrate STEM and constructionist activities into the school curriculum.
Dr Aditi Wagh is a Research Scientist in the Scheller Teacher Education Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research employs design research methods to design learning technologies and experiences that integrate computation and STEM in ways that build on children’s existing ways of knowing and experiencing the world to promote learning.
Adelmo Eloy is a research fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab, and a doctoral student in Electronic Systems at the University of São Paulo (USP), in Brazil. His work focuses on the design of learning technologies for K-12 STEM Education.
Dr Paulo Blikstein is an Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has designed educational platforms for rich experimentation and developed the Bifocal Modeling framework as well as other cutting-edge techniques in learning analytics.
Dr Michelle Wilkerson is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies how young people learn with and about computational representations such as computer simulations, data visualizations, or interactive graphics.
Dr Asimina (Mina) Vasalou is a professor of Interaction Design at University College London (UCL), UK. She was the coordinator of the iRead project. Mina also led a workpackage concerned with training teachers as well as supporting them to use personalised technologies developed within the project across eight pilots.
Dr Seray Ibrahim is a researcher at UCL with an interest in digital technology for learning and communication. In iRead she acted as key contact with the teachers, developed training materials and supported the school to use the project’s technologies over a period of 2.5 years (including during the period of the pandemic).
Dr Laura Benton is a Senior Research Associate at the UCL Knowledge lab. Her research focuses on education technology design for children and she has worked on several projects in this area including iLearnRW, ScratchMaths and iRead using design approaches such as participatory design and design-based research. She has extensive experience engaging and supporting primary and secondary schools in digital technology research projects, primarily in the areas of literacy, computing and mathematics
Dr Caroline Pulfrey is a Senior Researcher and Scientific Collaborator at the Centre for Learning Sciences LEARN, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her research interests focus in the areas of Educational Psychology and Organisational Behavior (in particular organisational culture, values). She is currently carrying out research in the context of the Canton de Vaud EduNum project, using the SELFIE project to study Digital Cultures in schools.
Dr Mutlu Cukurova is an Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at University College London, UK. His research focuses on the design, development and adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Analytics solutions to support learning. Mutlu is engaged with UNESCO’s unit for Technology and AI in Education, UCL’s Grand Challenges on Transformative Technology, Editor of the British Journal of Educational Technology and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.
Dr Samira Alirezabeigi is a researcher at UCL working on the iHubSchools project.