Ph. D. Rossella Santagata is Associate Professor at the UC Irvine School of Education and, during the 2018/19 academic year, Visiting Scholar  at the Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Technische Universität, in Berlin, Germany.

Her research interests are in two areas:

(1) Teacher learning and professional development, with a focus on the use of video to foster teacher professional growth.

(2) Teaching and learning in STEM, with a focus on both development of youths’ conceptual understanding and video as a tool to study learning interactions.