Dr. Igor Bascandziev

Igor is a Research Scientist collaborating with the CoCoDev Lab at Harvard University. Igor earned his doctoral degree in Human Development and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After acquiring his degree, he taught Cognitive and Developmental Psychology at several liberal arts colleges and he was a postdoctoral fellow and a Mind Brain Behavior research associate at Harvard University. The overarching goal of his research program is to better understand the process of conceptual construction. How are highly abstract concepts like infinity, force, life, death, and many other concepts constructed over ontogenesis and over historical time?