Ayelet Baram-Tsabari

Prof. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari is a professor of science education and communication at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology and Franz Ollendorf Chair at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology.

Her training in science education (Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, 2008) and science communication (Marie Curie fellowship, Cornell University, 2010), alongside considerable experience as a journalist, editor, and TV presenter (1999-2008), have together shaped her commitment to evidence-based practice and research in science communication and education. Baram-Tsabari hosts a science communication MOOC on edX and serves as an editorial board member of Public Understanding of Science and the International Journal of Science Education: Part B. She is also an associate editor and editorial board member of Science Communication.

Her research program focuses on the relevance of science education to public engagement with science and on training scientists for effective science communication.