People

Elizabeth Bonawitz

elizabeth_bonawitz@gse.harvard.edu

Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

My research bridges two research traditions: Cognitive Development and Computational Modeling. By bridging these methods, I hope to understand the structure of children's early causal beliefs, how evidence and prior beliefs interact to affect children's...

Rosie Aboody

raboody2@gmail.com

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Rosie was a postdoctoral fellow with joint appointments at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She received her B.A. in psychology with highest honors from UC Berkeley where she worked with...

Adani Abutto

aabutto@stanford.edu

Adani was previously a Visiting Research Scholar at the CoCoDev Lab at HGSE during his master’s studies in Psychology and Learning Sciences at the University of Munich in Germany. He is now a graduate student at Stanford's Psychology department working...

Igor Bascandziev

igb078@mail.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Igor is a postdoctoral research fellow in the CoCoDev Lab and the CoDaS (Computational Data Science) Group at Rutgers University – Newark. Igor earned his doctoral degree in Human Development and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education...

Ilona Bass

ibass@fas.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ilona (Lonnie) is a joint postdoctoral research fellow working with Prof. Elizabeth Bonawitz in HGSE and Prof. Tomer Ullman in FAS Psychology. She received her B.A. with high honors in psychology from Oberlin College in 2014, and her Ph.D. in Psychology...

Katarina Begus

Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at CoCoDev

Dr. Katarina Begus was a postdoctoral research fellow at CoCoDev and is now an Associate Professor of Psychology at University of Copenhagen. Her main research interests are curiosity, information seeking, and learning in infancy. Dr. Begus has been...

Miaofan Chen

Miaofan Chen is an international student from China and a senior at Rutgers University studying Psychology and Cognitive Science. She is curious about sensitive knowledge preferences in different ages so that she may explore and design specific...

Koeun Choi

koeun@vt.edu

Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at CoCoDev

Dr. Koeun Choi was a Postdoctoral research fellow at CoCoDev and is now an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech. Her work focuses on four aspects including (1) examining the impact of media on learning, (2)...

Junyi Chu

junyichu@mit.edu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Junyi was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the CoCoDev Lab. She completed her Ph.D. work at the Early Childhood Cognition Lab at MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She received her B.S. in Cognitive Studies and Child Development with highest...

Joseph Colantonio

colantoniojoseph@gmail.com

Previous Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Joseph Colantonio was a postdoctoral fellow in the CoCoDev Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Rutgers University, Newark in 2023, where he worked with Dr. Elizabeth Bonawitz. He is broadly interested in human learning and curiosity from a...

Emily Daubert

Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at CoCoDev

Dr. Emily Daubert was a Postdoctoral researcher fellow and is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Her research aims to understand the role of play in young children’s learning, to uncover mechanisms underlying...

Elfriede Diestel

elfriede.diestel@gmail.com

Previous Visiting Research Scholar

Elfriede is a Visiting Research Scholar at CoCoDev, and a 1st-year Ph.D Student in the department of Education and Human Development at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt, Germany. She received her BA in...