Postdoctoral Associate University of Florida
Nicholas A. Vest
I study how learners build and adapt representations of mathematical ideas and how learning environments shape their reasoning.
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida, where I conduct research on mathematical thinking and learning.
My work combines controlled experiments with computational and data-intensive approaches. I use experimental designs to test how instructional supports affect learning, computational models to investigate cognitive processes, and learning analytics with large-scale educational data to study learning in authentic contexts.
I earned my Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I was a member of the Cognitive Development and Communication Lab. Before beginning my doctoral studies, I was a lab manager in the Learning, Education, and Development Lab at Indiana University.