Tamara Galoyan

Tamara Galoyan is an Invention Education Learning and Curriculum Specialist at the Lemelson-MIT Program. Tamara holds a PhD degree in Educational Leadership and Learning Technologies from Drexel University. She completed her two-year postdoctoral training at the University of Utah’s College of Education. Prior to joining the MIT community, Tamara worked as an Educational Research Associate at Cornell University, an Adjunct Faculty at Johns Hopkins University, and a Research Professor at Drexel University. Tamara also served as a Founding Co-Director of Education, Learning, and Brain Sciences (E-LaBS) research lab at Drexel University

Tamara’s research is interdisciplinary and lies at the intersection of Learning Sciences, STEM education, and learning technologies. She has more than a decade of professional experience in educational research, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, serving on dissertation committees, curriculum development, program evaluation and assessment, as well as teacher training and mentoring in the context of PreK-12, higher education, and continuous workplace learning. Tamara’s work has been published in scholarly journals and presented at national and international conferences.

Outside her work, Tamara is passionate about travelling and exploring different cultures and languages. She also loves arts, music, and dancing.