Since October 2025, Elizabeth Bear has been a research associate and doctoral candidate in the Language and AI in Education lab at the IWM. As a part of the Aisla project, in collaboration with the IWM and the University of Tübingen’s Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, her dissertation research examines the design and evaluation of a conversational agent for second language learning in the German school context. More broadly, her research interests lie at the intersection of computational linguistics, education sciences, and psychology.

Elizabeth Bear was previously a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology. She studied linguistics and psychology at McGill University (B.A.) and later completed master’s degrees in TESOL at Boston University (M.Ed.) and computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen (M.A.). She worked as an English as a foreign language instructor in various countries from 2008 to 2018.