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Dietsje Jolles

Assistant Professor, Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University

Dietsje Jolles is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands, and a board member of the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition. In her research, she uses both behavioral and neuroimaging methods to better understand learning and cognitive skill acquisition across development. She is a Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow 2019-2021.

Universiteit Leiden

Contributions by Dietsje

Pia Viviani and Dietsje Jolles / 18 August 2020

Video Development 21st century skills

Brain training. Illustration by kurzgesagt.

Associate Professor of Economics and Education at Teacher’s College, Columbia University

Alex Eble

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney

Fotini Vasilopoulos

Science journalist, filmmaker and editor, BBC

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