Dr. Andrea Paula Goldin
About me
Andrea Goldin is a neuroscientist, professor, and tenured researcher in Argentina. With over two decades in Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience, she has received international awards and continuous funding for her interdisciplinary work. Her research covers cognitive training, critical thinking, school readiness, screen use, and AI in education and daily life across the lifespan. Committed to bringing the latest Science of Learning to Latin America, she engages and challenges policymakers and politicians, encouraging reflection. Andrea promotes science education through outreach, teacher training, and her award-winning book Neuroscience at School, and serves as a consultant, columnist, and visiting professor nationally and internationally.
Andrea Goldin holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and a PhD in Physiological Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine at UBA. She also earned a postgraduate diploma in Education and New Technologies from FLACSO. For over two decades, she has specialized in neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive science.
She is a Professor and tenured researcher for the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), based in the Neuroscience Laboratory at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, where she leads Mate Marote. She also collaborates with the Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (UBA).
Andrea is the president of Expedición Ciencia, a regional NGO dedicated to science education. She is a guest researcher at J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) and an associate researcher at the Center for Evidence-Based Policy Evaluation (CEPE). She is a member of the Argentine Society for Neuroscience Research (SAN) and the Uruguayan Society of Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences (SUCCC). She also serves as an educational advisor for Argentinos por la Educación and is part of the UNESCO Chair of Science for Education.
She is the author of more than thirty scientific papers published in leading international journals, and of the book Neurociencia en la escuela: Guía amigable (y sin bla bla) para entender cómo funciona el cerebro durante el aprendizaje (Siglo XXI Editores), for which she received the prestigious Isay Klasse Award for Best Education Book (2021–2022).
Among other honors, she was awarded the Innovators Under 35 prize by the MIT Technology Review, was a Fellow of the Learning Sciences Exchange (Jacobs Foundation and New America), and a Fellow of the Science of Learning program (International Brain Research Organization – IBRO, and IBE–UNESCO).
Andrea advises public policy, civil society organizations, and private companies on the effective application of behavioral sciences. She has given lectures across multiple countries and continents. She is also a science communicator, TEDx speaker, and hosts a neuroscience segment on CNN Radio in Spanish. Additionally, she is a trainer and educator in science and neuroscience, and teaches neuroscience and behavioral science at various national and international institutions and universities.
Selected press appearences (most in Spanish): linktr.ee/andre.goldin