Dr. Zoya Kozlova

Areas of work/research

Zoya Kozlova's research interests focus on individual differences and conceptual change in learning with immersive technologies.

Short biography

Zoya Kozlova studied Research into Teaching and Learning at the Technical University of Munich, where she defended her master’s thesis in 2021 entitled Managing Cognitive Load in Virtual Reality Learning Environments: The Role of Signaling and Pre-training. From 2022 to 2025, she worked at the Chair of Empirical Pedagogy and Educational Psychology on the CESAR project, which investigated how the interplay between conceptual knowledge and experimental skills can be optimized through the use of augmented reality in learning with multiple external representations (MER) during experimentation.

In 2025, she completed her PhD with the dissertation The Role of Individual Differences in Learning with Immersive Technology: Interaction of Affordances of Augmented and Virtual Reality Environments and Learner Characteristics, supervised by Prof. Sarah Hofer.