Megha Bairwal

Research Assistant

Megha is a sophomore at the University of Michigan and is double majoring in Computer Science and Psychology. She has recently joined the team as a UROP student.

Robert Beckemeyer

Research Assistant

Robert is a junior UROP student at the University of Michigan in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, majoring in Economics and Mathematics.

Inese Berzina-Pitcher

Project Manager

Inese manages GRIP Lab research projects, which includes planning and organizing work, communicating with internal and external stakeholders, hiring staff, organizing events, and recruiting research participants.

Amanda Brown

GRIP Lab Co-Director

Amanda is a research scientist at the University of Michigan that studies teachers’ instructional practices and innovative approaches for intervening in those practices through pd. She has a PhD in Mathematics Education and MA in Mathematics.

Hannah Connell

Research Assistant

Hannah is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, majoring in Computer Science.

Stephanie Delgado

Research Assistant

Stephanie is a senior at the University of Michigan in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, majoring in sociology.

Bruno Herbst

Jr Application Developer

Bruno is a senior at the University of Michigan in the College of Engineering and is majoring in Computer Science. He works under Srikanth on the development of software applications for the Grip team which are used for research studies.

Pat Herbst

GRIP Lab Director

Pat is a professor of Education and Mathematics at Michigan. He studies the knowledge and rationality involved in teaching mathematics and the use of digital technologies to represent and communicate professional knowledge.

Carolyn Hetrick

Postdoctoral Researcher

 Carolyn is a postdoctoral researcher who earned her Ph.D. in Educational Foundations and Policy at the University of Michigan. Carolyn’s research interests involve leveraging critical qualitative methodologies to support community-based education initiatives and advocacy efforts. Through her work with the GRIP Lab, Carolyn participates in qualitative inquiry about instructors’ practical rationalities.

Michael Ion

Research Assistant

Mike is a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics education at the University of Michigan. His research interests include conceptions in calculus, online learning, measurement, and natural language processing.

Inah Ko

Postdoctoral Researcher

Inah has a PhD in mathematics education and MA and MS in statistics and applied mathematics. Her research interests lie in mathematical knowledge for teaching and quantitative research methods in educational studies.

Srikanth Lavu

Application Developer

Srikanth has an MS in Computer Science. His work mainly involves designing and developing Software Applications for the GRIP team which are used for research studies.

Rashmi Nair

Research Assistant

Rashmi is a sophomore at the University of Michigan studying economics and statistics. She is currently working on the T4D project as a UROP student.

Gil Schwarts

Postdoctoral Researcher

Gil earned her PhD and MSc in mathematics education at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and her BSc in mathematics at the Ben-Gurion University. She is interested in secondary mathematics teachers’ decision-making processes and their capacity to enact changes in their long-established practices, and in the ways in which productive mathematical discussions evolve.

Irma Stevens

Postdoctoral Researcher

Irma is a postdoc who earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education and MA in Mathematics at the University of Georgia. Her main research interests are understanding students’ meanings for formulas when reasoning about dynamic situations and teachers’ decision making about mathematical tasks.