Stella Vosniadou#
| Membership Number: | 4242 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GREECE |
| Homepage(s): | http://en.phs.uoa.gr/faculty-and-staff/professors-emeriti/stella-vosniadou.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Emeritus Professor, Department of Philosophy and History, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- 1995 - 2014 Professor, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- 1992 - 1995 Professor, Department of Elementary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- 1990 - 1992 Professor, Department of Preschool Education, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- 1986 - 1990 Associate Professor, Department of Preschool Education, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- 1979 – 1986 Senior Scientist, Center for the Study of Reading, and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
- SHORT TERM ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- 2015, Strategic Professor, Department of Education, The Flinders University of South Australia
- 2010, Visiting Professor, Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
- 2008 Visiting Professor, Psychology Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- 2006 Visiting Professor, Psychology Department, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
- 2001 Visiting Professor, School of Education, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Fields of Scholarship
- Cognitive psychology
- Conceptual development
- Conceptual change
- Science and mathematics learning and teaching
- Technology supported learning environments
- Educational assessment
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Society for Research in Child Development, Distinguished International Contributions to Child Development Research Award.
- 2012 - present Fellow, American Educational Research Association
- 1997 - present Fellow, International Academy of Education (AERA)
- Elected member of the Governing Board and Chair, Cognitive Science Society
- Elected President, European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
