Louis Gomez
University of California, Los Angeles
Professor

Year Elected
2014
Membership status
Regular
Biography
Louis Gomez is a Professor of Education at UCLA. Before joining the UCLA faculty, he was the Helen S. Faison Professor of Urban Education and Sr. Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at The University of Pittsburgh. His scholarship focuses on understanding how to support organizational change in schools and other institutions. Along with his colleagues, Professor Gomez has been dedicated to collaborative research and development with urban communities to bring the current state-of-the-art instruction and support for community formation to traditionally underserved schools. Most recently, Professor Gomez has focused on problem-solving research and development. This is R&D organized around high-leverage problems embedded in the day-to-day work of teaching and learning and the institutions in which these activities occur. Professor Gomez received a B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.