Julia Hermos is an education researcher and schoolteacher. A research associate at the Center for Children and Technology, Julie works on evaluation and research projects in both informal and formal educational settings. Thus far, her work has focused on the evaluation large-scale corporate education technology initiatives. Working on IBM's Reinventing Education Grant partnership, she has traveled across the country, observing classrooms and training sessions, interviewing teachers, pre-service teachers, trainers and administrators, and attending and presenting at educational conferences. Julia also has worked on smaller scale research and evaluation projects that investigate the role of technology--specifically programmable bricks called "Crickets"--in playful exploration and invention. This work involves several prominent science museums, including the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the Fort Worth Museum of Science, the Lemelson Center of the Smithsonian Institution and MIT's Media Lab in Boston. Literacy development and instruction also concerns Julia. She is conducting a small study on teacher use of handheld devices in the classroom to assist in performing reading assessments and analyzing results. Specifically, she is examining how immediate access to meaningful diagnostic information may benefit teachers in their approaches to literacy instruction.

In addition to her work at CCT, Julia also teaches science part-time at a public school in New York City. Prior to joining CCT, Julia taught fourth and fifth grade students at an elementary school in Denver, CO.

Julia received a master's degree in Education, with a special emphasis on Bilingual and Special Education, from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She did her undergraduate work in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.