I am professor at the Seymour (Shlomo) Fox School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I am currently the director of the Center for Research on Teacher Training and Learning (CTL) and lead the Learning & Interaction Lab. I have a BA in Psychology from Haifa University and an MA and PhD in Educational Psychology from the Hebrew University. I was a postdoctoral fellow at LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, and a visiting scholar at Utrecht University. 

Research statement: Together with students and colleagues, I explore how human beings learn from, through and following social, verbal interactions with others. This research is based on the premise that individual cognition is shaped through social interactions and that verbal dialogue plays a special role in this process. I strongly believe in combining experimental methodology with in-depth, quantitative analyses of socio-cognitive processes of learning. However, research in this multi-faceted domain requires methodological and theoretical versatility. I then also use descriptive, qualitative and design research methods when these are called for, and my theoretical approach integrates concepts and constructs from educational psychology, communication, computer-human interaction and education. Topic-wise, we have done research on classroom dialogue and argumentation; teacher support of learning dialogues; conceptual change; computer-mediated learning interactions; social media and knowledge sharing; computational psychopathology; teacher pedagogical reasoning; and AI-supported dialogue.

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