Monique Volman is a full professor of education. She is the program leader of the Educational Sciences research program of the Research Institute of Child Development and Education (CDE) at the University of Amsterdam. Main areas in her research are learning environments for meaningful learning, diversity and the use of ICT in education, issues which she approaches from a socio-cultural theoretical perspective. In her work she aims to build bridges between educational theory and practice by applying and further developing methodologies for collaborative design research, in which teachers and researchers collaboratively develop and evaluate theoretically-informed innovations.