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Ayelet Baram-Tsabari is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and head of the Biology Education and Science Communication research groups. She earned her B.Sc. at Tel Aviv University and her Ph.D at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and was a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University (2010-2011).

Assoc. Prof. Baram-Tsabari is a member of the Learning in a Networked Society (LINKS) Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE). She is the founder of the Israeli Science Communication Conference series and currently the chair of the conference’s academic committee. She is a member of the PCST Network scientific committee and of the Israel Young Academy, and the chair of the research committee at the council of the Second Authority for Television and Radio, the public authority that supervises commercial broadcasting in Israel. She is the recipient of the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education (2015).

Her research interests include: Bridging science education and science communication scholarship; Identifying people’s interests in science; Building on these authentic interests to teach and communicate science in more meaningful and personally relevant ways.

Personal site, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Professor Bruce Lewenstein is a professor of science communication at Cornell University. He is currently serving as chair of the Department of Science & Technology Studies. He is also a full member of the Department of Communication. He is a faculty-elected member of Cornell’s Board of Trustees (2016-2020).

His projects—whether teaching, research, or public outreach—all involve public communication of science and technology (PCST), also known as “public understanding of science,” “popularization of science,” “popular science,” “vulgarisation” [in French], “divulgacion” [in Spanish], “culture scientifique” [French again], “apropiacion social” [Spanish again], “scientific temper” [written into the Indian constitution], etc. In general, He tries to document to the ways that public communication of science is fundamental to the process of producing reliable knowledge about the natural world.

Personal page, Cornell University, USA

Personal page, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Aviv J. Sharon is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Education in Technology and Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Aviv completed his M.Sc. in Life Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science and his undergraduate studies in Biology and Science Education (with distinction) at the Technion. He has also taught biology and biotechnology at a public high school in Haifa, Israel. His research interests lie in the interface between science education and science communication. More specifically, his work examines enactments of scientific literacy in authentic online environments, especially in the context of personal health. His work has appeared in Public Understanding of Science and PLOS One.
Personal page, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Personal site

Ayelet Baram-Tsabari is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and head of the Biology Education and Science Communication research groups. She earned her B.Sc. at Tel Aviv University and her Ph.D at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and was a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University (2010-2011).

Assoc. Prof. Baram-Tsabari is a member of the Learning in a Networked Society (LINKS) Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE). She is the founder of the Israeli Science Communication Conference series and currently the chair of the conference’s academic committee. She is a member of the PCST Network scientific committee and of the Israel Young Academy, and the chair of the research committee at the council of the Second Authority for Television and Radio, the public authority that supervises commercial broadcasting in Israel. She is the recipient of the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education (2015).

Her research interests include: Bridging science education and science communication scholarship; Identifying people’s interests in science; Building on these authentic interests to teach and communicate science in more meaningful and personally relevant ways.

Personal site, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Personal page, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Personal page, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Personal page, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Personal page, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Aviv J. Sharon is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Education in Technology and Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Aviv completed his M.Sc. in Life Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science and his undergraduate studies in Biology and Science Education (with distinction) at the Technion. He has also taught biology and biotechnology at a public high school in Haifa, Israel. His research interests lie in the interface between science education and science communication. More specifically, his work examines enactments of scientific literacy in authentic online environments, especially in the context of personal health. His work has appeared in Public Understanding of Science and PLOS One.
Personal page, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Personal site