Dr Eirini Geraniou is working as a full time research officer on the MiGen project at the London Knowledge Lab. Before joining the MiGen team in January 2008, she worked as a mathematics teacher at Trinity Catholic School at Leamington Spa. She has also worked as a sessional lecturer at the Maths Support Centre at Aston University in Birmingham helping undergraduate students in mathematics. She completed her PhD in mathematics education at the University of Warwick in 2006. Her research focused on the Transition from undergraduate to graduate studies in mathematics. She has also completed an MSc in mathematics education at the University of Warwick in 2001 and a first degree in pure mathematics at the University of Crete in Greece in 2000. Her research interests include advanced mathematical thinking, student’s motivation in learning mathematics, learning styles and understanding formal definitions and proofs in mathematics.