Anat Shauly is a researcher in the education research team at Shmuel Neaman Institute and has a Ph.D. from the Technion. The topic of her thesis is “Professional Learning Communities as a Professional and Social Platform to Support Chemistry Teachers”. She holds B.Sc. Ed. in Chemical Education (Cum Laude), a B. Sc. (Sunna Cum Laude), and M. Sc. Degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Technion. Previously, Anat had worked as a research assistant at the Rabin Desalination Laboratory at Technion, and as a characterization engineer at Semi-Conductor Devices (SCD).