Jordana (Yardaena) Portman is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education in Science & Technology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Her research, under the supervision of Professor Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, focuses on measuring the impact of using social media and visuals for science communication. She is especially interested in the impacts of science communication on young audiences.
Jordana received her B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from SUNY Binghamton in 2022 and her M.Sc. in Marine Biology & Ecology from the University of Miami in 2024. She hopes to expand her research to focus on use of social media to communicate marine biology.