Team

The PIRE Research Team

As PIRE is an international research effort, our research team is spread across multiple countries. The American contingent of our team is based at Michigan State University while the Finnish contingent is based at the University of Helsinki. Below are the members of the PIRE team.

Principal investigators

  • Barbara Schneider, John A. Hannah University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and Department of Sociology
  • Joseph Krajcik, Professor and Director of the CREATE for STEM Institute, a joint entity between the College of Natural Science and the College of Education

Other members

  • Tom Bielik
  • Jason Burns
  • Christopher Klager
  • Deborah Peek-Brown

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Principal investigators

  • Jari Lavonen, Professor in Physics and Chemistry Education and Head of the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Helsinki,
  • Katariina Salmela-Aro, Professor of Psychology, Finnish Center of Cicero Learning (Brain, Learning and Education), University of Jyväskylä & University of Helsinki

Other members

  • Janna Inkinen
  • Kalle Juuti
  • Jukka Marjanen
  • Katja Upadyaya