Professor Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Franz Ollendorf Chair (Donated by Octav and Marcella Botnar) at the Technion
Ayelet Baram-Tsabari is a professor of science education and communication at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She is also the Franz Ollendorf Chair at the Technion. 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 a TV presenter (1999-2008) have together shaped her commitment to evidence-based practice and research in science communication and education. She now heads the Applied Science Communication Research Group, and her research program focuses on the relevance of science education to public engagement with science and on training scientists for effective science communication.
Baram-Tsabari is a former elected member of the Israel Young Academy (2016-2020) and the scientific committee of the Public Communication of Science and Technology network. She received the Higher Education Award for a Young Faculty Member (2021) for her exceptional contribution to society and the community in Israel from the Council of Higher 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.
Contact Details
ayelet[-at-]technion.ac.il
Faculty of Education in Science and Technology
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Technion City, Haifa 3200003
Israel