Dr. Marina Serdiouk is a senior research associate at NIET. Prior to joining NIET, Marina worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Virginia, where she researched the role of teachers in facilitating positive peer relationships among students and contributed to the Virginia Partnership for School Mental Health project. She also worked in Denver, Colorado, at Marzano Research, where she supported applied research projects under the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Central contract. She earned her doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017.