Imac Maria Zambrana

Academic interests

• Language development & delays
• Early communication and social cognitive skills
• Learning mechanisms and social learning processes

Background

• 2017-2018: Visiting Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
• 2016 – d.d.: Associate Professor, Department of Department of Special  Needs Education, University of Oslo
• 2016 – d.d.: Researcher, Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development (NUBU)
• 2012-2016: Post-doctoral Fellow, The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development
• 2014-2015: Project-affiliated researcher, Dept. of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
• 2013: Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
• 2012 – 2012: Researcher, Dept. of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
• 2012: Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Oslo.  Title: “Predicting delay in language development. A longitudinal cohort study from 18 months to 5 years of age.”
• 2009 – 2012: Ph.D. Fellow, Dept. of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Awards, grants and funding

• 2018: Faculty qualifying research grant for female Associate Professors (Equality grant), Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo
• 2018: Faculty research grant, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo
• 2017 – 2020: Mobility grants North America in educational research (UTNAM) for Dr. M. Rowe, project no 271841, The Research Council of Norway
• 2017 – 2018: Personal Overseas Grants (FINNUT), project no 270461, The Research Council of Norway
• 2017 – 2018: Fulbright Fellowship grant, Fulbright Foundation
• 2017: Internal teaching grant, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo
• 2017: Internal research grant, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo
• 2015 – 2020: “Children’s Information Seeking: Its Development and Impacts on Learning” (Young Research Talents grant), project no 254974, Norwegian Research Council
•  2013: “The influence of child care and home environment on learning and social functioning in transition to school and early school age” (Personal Mobility Grant), project no 224797/F11, Norwegian Research Council
• 2012: The Psychological Department’s Ph.D. Research Price, Faculty of Social Sciences/ Dept. of Psychology, University of Oslo
• 2009 – 2012: “Identification of preverbal precursors for early language delays and different language delay trajectories” (Ph.D. project grant), project no 2008/2/0003, Health and Rehabilitation, Norwegian Extra funds
• 2007: Student travelling grant, UNIFOR