Dr. Remy Dou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami in Florida—an institutional member of the Association of American Universities. In 2019, Dr. Dou was awarded funding through the highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development program (NSF CAREER; Award No. 1846167), which is considered “the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty”. In 2025, U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced him as one of the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)—the highest honor bestowed by the President on early-career researchers—for his groundbreaking work on how children develop their identification with STEM fields.

Dr. Dou’s research focuses on the socioemotional aspects of learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in informal environments (e.g., after school programs, home settings), focusing on factors related to children’s identification with these fields. His primary research efforts attend to his role as Director of the Talking Science Research and Development Group, through which he leads a diverse team of researchers and program developers in identifying aspects of informal, science-related conversations between children and caregivers that contribute to their identification with STEM fields. This work includes the participation of families, teachers, and college students, many of whom identify as Hispanic/Latine^[1] and/or first or second-generation migrants. Dr. Dou’s research has been published in several top journals, including Science Education, the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, and Physical Review – Physics Education Research. 

Prior to his work as a researcher, Dr. Dou was one of the youngest K-12 STEM educators selected to the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship through which he served two years at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. During his fellowship years (2011 – 2013), he worked on projects related to student engagement in STEM, informal STEM learning, and diversity in STEM education, including working with Laureate Carl Wieman, then Associate Director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, to develop a design and evaluation framework for federal STEM intervention programs. This framework contributed to the White House’s Committee on STEM Education in the creation of a five-year Federal STEM education strategic plan. He presented on these topics at NSF and at national conferences.

As a successful K-12 educator, he taught in both the private and public school sectors from 2004 to 2011. Primarily, Dr. Dou taught and developed curricula for high school Biology, AP Biology, Chemistry, and Physics courses. At Miami Christian School in Miami, Florida, he served as Science Department Director, helping to realign the school’s science standards across all grade levels.

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^[1] The term “Latine” aims to reflect gender neutrality while avoiding the “Latinx” and “Latin@” conventions often criticized by Latine individuals for their anglicized origin and failure to produce an intuitive Spanish-language pronunciation (Onis, 2017).