Kevin Crowley is an Associate Professor of Education and Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh’s Learning Research & Development Center where he also directs the University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Settings. Dr. Crowley’s research interests focus on the development of children's scientific thinking in informal, formal, and everyday settings. His work focuses on understanding how children develop knowledge and skill in the context of family scientific thinking in context such as museums or on the web. He focuses on the question of how to best coordinate children’s experience in science across development and across different parts of the formal and informal educational infrastructure. He was a visiting fellow at the Department of Psychology and Education at Nagoya University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994.