Richard E. Mayer is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the  University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests are in  applying the science of learning to education, with current projects on  multimedia learning, computer-supported learning, and computer games for  learning. His research is at the intersection of cognition,  instruction, and technology, with a focus on how to help people learn in  ways so they can transfer what they have learned to new situations. He  served as President of Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the  American Psychological Association and Vice President of the American  Educational Research Association for Division C (Learning and  Instruction). He is the winner of the Thorndike Award for career  achievement in educational psychology, the Scribner Award for  outstanding research in learning and instruction, and the American  Psychological Association’s Distinguished Contribution of Applications  of Psychology to Education and Training Award. He is ranked #1 as the  most productive educational psychologist in the world in Contemporary  Educational Psychology. He has served as Principal Investigator or co-PI  on more than 30 grants, including recent grants from the Office of  Naval Research to investigate how to improve the effectiveness of  educational games, from the Institute of Education Sciences to  investigate the effectiveness of features of an online tutoring system,  and from the National Science Foundation to study students’ learning and  problem-solving strategies. He is former editor of the Educational  Psychologist and former co-editor of Instructional Science, and he  serves on the editorial boards of 12 journals mainly in educational  psychology. He is the author of more than 500 publications including 30  books, such as Learning as a Generative Activity (with L. Fiorella),  Computer Games for Learning, Applying the Science of Learning,  e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Fourth Edition (with R.  Clark), Multimedia Learning: Second Edition, Learning and Instruction:  Second Edition, Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction: Second  Edition (co-editor with P. Alexander) and the Cambridge Handbook of  Multimedia Learning: Second Edition (editor).