Dr. Elizabeth Bonawitz received her Ph.D. from MIT in the brain and cognitive sciences in 2009. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Berkeley (from 2009-2013). She was an Assistant and Associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, Newark from 2013 until 2020 when she moved to Harvard.
Currently, Dr. Bonawitz is the David J. Vitale Associate Professor of Learning Sciences at Harvard University. Her work focuses on the basic science theories of learning with the broader goal of informing educational practice. Her research bridges two research traditions: cognitive development and computational modeling. Specifically, Dr. Bonawitz’s approach focuses on the structure of children's early beliefs, how evidence and prior beliefs interact to affect learning, the developmental processes that influence beliefs, and the role of social factors in learning.
Without further introduction, I give you Dr. Elizabeth Bonawitz.
