Irit Bar-Kochva

Irit Bar-Kochva is a Senior Researcher at the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) - Leibniz Institute for Research on Lifelong Education, Bonn, Germany. Her work focuses on adult literacy, language acquisition, and cognitive processes underlying reading and writing.

• Active member of the Local Ethics Committee (since 2020)
• Ombudsperson at DIE Bonn (since 2021)
• Editorial Board member of the Annals of Dyslexia (since 2021)

Research Priorities: Lifespan literacy development, diagnostics for learning difficulties, cognitive foundations of reading/writing, and intervention programs for adults with low literacy. She investigates how orthographic transparency affects brain activity in regular and dyslexic readers.

Recent Publications: Focus on adult literacy in immigrant populations, reading comprehension deficits, morphological training interventions, and cross-linguistic comparisons. Her projects include the international LACILLA network and meta-research on language education in immigration societies.

Committees & Editorial Roles: Participates in ethical oversight, co-edits special volumes in journals like Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung, and leads research topics in Frontiers in Psychology.