Professor Yehudit Judy Dori is member at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She was the Dean of the Faculty during 2016-2020 and the Dean of Continuing Education and External Studies at the Technion during 2009-2013. She is also a Senior Researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, Haifa, Israel. She has been intermittently Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, between 2000 and 2014, and during 2020. Professor Dori holds M.Sc. in Life Sciences and Ph.D. in Science Education from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research interests encompass learning in technology-rich environments, assessment, scientific visualizations, 21st century STEM skills, and metacognition at the high school and university levels.

Prof. Dori co-edited two books on cognition and metacognition in STEM education, published by Springer in 2012 and 2018. In 2020 she received the NARST Distinguished Contributions to Science Education through Research Award – 2020 DCRA for her exceptional research contributions and strong national and international community engagements.

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