My name is Hani and I live in Yuvalim, Misgav with my husband my son and my daughter. I completed my B.Sc. and M.Ed. in Physics Education at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
From 2005 to 2013, I worked at an elementary school in the northern part of Israel, teaching science. During the last two years, I have also trained teachers to use ICT tools in teaching while maximizing their pedagogical value.
In 2013, I began a Ph.D. program in the Faculty of Education in Science & Technology.
My PhD is about students’ interest in science. Using questions that students bring up in a formal (e.g., science class) and informal environments (e.g., Ask-an-expert websites, questions exhibition etc.), I identified common interest in science across different groups of learners and studied its stability over time. In addition, I examined which resource of questions may be useful for teachers and decision makers in order to integrate the student voice into the science curriculum.
Since 2020, I have been serving as the Director of the Citizen Lab, a collaboration between MadaTech — Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space — and the Faculty of Education in Science & Technology at the Technion. The Citizen Lab focuses on fostering connections between academia, science museums, and the public through citizen science and participatory science initiatives, aiming to make science more accessible and engaging for diverse communities.
