Dr. Anna Queiroz

Dr. Anna Queiroz is an Associate Professor in the Interactive Media Department, and a member of the Frost Institute of Data Science and Computing at the University of Miami. She leads innovative Virtual Reality initiatives in communication, education, and climate change in public settings across the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Her research focuses on emerging media’s cognitive, social, and psychological impacts on human behavior, charting new frontiers in education and communication.

She leads one of the largest VR research projects in education, introducing VR to approximately 33,000 middle and high school students from low-income communities. This project has earned media recognition and an award from the King Center on Global Development at Stanford University.

Her research interests focus on lab and field studies, which combine traditional research methods with artificial intelligence to understand human behavior in media environments.

Dr. Queiroz’s work informs researchers, governments, and the industry on using emerging media in education and climate change awareness and adaptation. She holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology and degrees in business, behavioral medicine, and education. She completed her postdoc in a double appointment at the Graduate School of Education and the School of Communication at Stanford University.