Professor and head of the mathematics education program in the department of education at the University of Haifa, Lappan-Phillips-Fitzgerald Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Michigan and visiting professor at the University of London's Institute of Education. Prof. Sfard's research focuses on the development of mathematical thinking, study of thinking from a discursive perspective, and on theories of learning. She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, received in 1989.