Prof. Dr. Nielsen Pereira

Nielsen Pereira (PhD) is an associate professor of Gifted, Creative, and Talented Studies at Purdue University and Director of Purdue’s Gifted Education Research & Resource Institute (GER2I). His research interests include conceptual, contextual, and measurement issues in the identification of gifted and talented populations; design and assessment of learning in varied gifted and talented education contexts; and understanding gifted and talented student experiences in talent development programs in and out of school.  He has received research grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, the American Psychological Foundation, and Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. He was the recipient of the 2018 Hollingworth Award and the 2020 Early Scholar Award from the National Association for Gifted Children, and the 2019 Pathbreaker Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent special interest group. He served as Associate Editor for Gifted and Talented International (2015-2022) and serves on the editorial boards of Gifted Child Quarterly, the Journal for the Education of the Gifted, and Journal of Advanced Academics.