Join Dr. Stephen M. Fiore, Director of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Professor with the University of Central Florida’s Cognitive Sciences Program in the Department of Philosophy and Institute for Simulation and Training, and a leader in research on the science of team science. Dr. Fiore is a founding board member, and past-president of the International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS). He will present, in conversation with Chris Lenhardt, Senior Research Scientist with the Earth Data Science Group at RENCI, addressing topics to include an introduction to some of the fundamental collaborative science research processes, teamwork, and how to assess collaborative science teamwork. They will also cover how teams can provide feedback to improve their collaborations. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in the question and answer, providing their own queries and/or responses to discussed topics.
Dr. Stephen M. Fiore – Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, and Pegasus Professor with the University of Central Florida’s Cognitive Sciences Program in the Department of Philosophy and Institute for Simulation and Training
Dr. Stephen M. Fiore is Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, and Pegasus Professor with the University of Central Florida’s Cognitive Sciences Program in the Department of Philosophy and Institute for Simulation and Training. He maintains a multidisciplinary research interest that incorporates aspects of the cognitive, social, organizational, and computational sciences in the investigation of learning and performance in individuals and teams. His primary area of research is the interdisciplinary study of complex collaborative cognition and the understanding of how humans interact socially and with technology. He is past-president of the International Network for the Science of Team Science, and past-president of the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research. He is currently serving on a National Academies of Sciences committee for a consensus study on Research and Application in Team Science. Dr. Fiore is also serving as a founding board member of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Trandisciplinary Research, an organized formed to strengthen and to promote the global capacity and the calibre of collaborative modes of boundary-crossing research and practice. He has been a visiting scholar for the study of shared and extended cognition at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in Lyon, France (2010) and he was a member of the expert panel for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) which focused on collaborative problem-solving skills. He has contributed to working groups for the National Academies of Sciences in understanding and measuring “21st Century Skills” and was a committee member of their “Science of Team Science” consensus study, as well as a member of the National Assessment of Educational Progress report on “Collaborative Problem Solving”. As Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator he has helped to secure and manage approximately $35 million in research funding. He is co-author of a book on “Accelerating Expertise” (2013) and is a co-editor of volumes on Shared Cognition (2012), Macrocognition in Teams (2008), Distributed Training (2007), and Team Cognition (2004). Dr. Fiore has also co-authored over 250 scholarly publications in the area of learning, memory, and problem solving in individuals and groups.
W. Christopher Lenhardt – Senior Research Scientist in the Earth Data Science group at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
W. Christopher Lenhardt is a senior research scientist in the Earth Data Science group at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI). At RENCI, he manages multidisciplinary teams of researchers in projects related to human interactions in the environment. His research interests include studying the development of research information infrastructure. Of particular focus is how multidisciplinary teams use information technology as part of their work. Prior to RENCI, Lenhardt was the manager of the NASA-funded Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for Biogeochemical Dynamics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and deputy director of the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) at Columbia University. Lenhardt currently serves on the board of directors for the International Network for the Science of Team Science and has held leadership roles in national and international organizations related to promoting the curation, sharing, and re-use of digital scientific data including president of ESIP (Federation for Earth Science Information Partners), chair of the Foundation for Earth Science board of directors, and co-chair of the CoopEUS strategic collaboration board. He currently serves as a member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Science Advisory Board. Lenhardt has been lead author or co-author on published papers on a wide range of topics such as digital curation; ethical, legal, and societal implications of technology; open science; stakeholder alignment; and information science.
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