Laura Zimmermann is a child development and media researcher.

Laura Zimmermann, Ph.D. is the Founder and President of Tech Play Collaborative. Dr. Zimmermann is a child development and media researcher passionate about using research to support children’s media designers, parents, educators, and policymakers.

Formerly, in her role, as an education researcher at SRI International, she collaborated and led research and evaluation activities around programs and products that clients developed in the early childhood education space.

Previously, Dr. Zimmermann was an Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Child's Play, Learning, and Development Lab working with Dr. Roberta Golinkoff and Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek with a focus on early learning from media, spatial development, and early STEM skills.

She received her PhD in Psychology at Georgetown University with a concentration in Human Development and Public Policy. As a graduate researcher in the Georgetown Early Learning Project, she studied how children learn and remember information from different media sources, such as touchscreens.

Dr. Zimmermann has consulted with organizations relating to children's media, child development and education policy. These include PBS KIDS, Sesame Workshop, New America Education, Reflection Sciences, and the US Administration for Children and Families (DHHS).