Short Bio

Mimi Bong is a Professor of Educational Psychology and the Director of bMRI, the Brain and Motivation Research Institute at Korea University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and previously served as an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and Ewha Womans University. Her research centers on motivation and self-regulated learning, particularly focusing on self-efficacy beliefs and achievement goals. Bong was honored with the ‘2006 Richard E. Snow Award for Early Contributions in Educational Psychology’ from the American Psychological Association. She was recognized as one of the most productive educational psychologists from 1997 to 2001 and one of the most productive female educational psychologists from 2009 to 2016. Bong has held many editorial positions, including Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Education and the Korean Journal of Educational Psychology, and Associate Editor of the lAmerican Educational Research Journal. She has also served or is currently serving on the editorial boards of AERA Open, Child Development, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Educational Psychologist, Educational Psychology Review, Educational Researcher, Journal of Educational Psychology, Learning and Individual Differences, Learning and Instruction, and Theory Into Practice. A Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the American Psychological Association’s Division 15, Bong is currently the President of the Korean Educational Psychology Association (KEPA).