Dr. Robert V. Steiner directs online teacher education at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, including its signature Seminars on Science program as well as its Coursera partnership.His focus is on the design, development, implementation and evaluation of accessible, innovative and effective online and blended programs. His development and stewardship of partnerships with higher education institutions – including the City University of New York, Rutgers University, and Western Governors University – as well as with the National Science Teachers Association, International Baccalaureate and other organizations have provided cutting-edge science to over 20,000 teachers and to hundreds of thousands of others for nearly a quarter century. Dr. Steiner has published and presented widely on online science education at both the national and international level.Dr. Steiner also provides leadership at the Museum in climate change education and was a lead organizer of the recent Building a Resilient Future: New York’s Climate Education Movement event at AMNH, which was attended by over 300 teachers, policy makers and thought leaders.Dr. Steiner also serves as a member of the adjunct faculty within the Department of Physics at Queens College as well as within the Program in Science Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College. He is passionate about the purposeful use of educational technologies in classrooms and teaching laboratories and has previously led the Committee on Educational Technologies of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He has a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in experimental elementary particle physics from Yale University. He is the author or co-author of more than 40 scientific publications.