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Professor Palen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science (area: Digital & Social Systems) at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a faculty fellow with the  Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS Institute) and the Institute for Cognitive Science (ICS). Her training and interests are socio-technical, with a focus on ethnographic studies of work practice that inform technology design, implementation, and policy. Professor Palen has written a range of papers  on technology issues in the areas of groupware; mobile communications; privacy, emotion, and public access; and most recently, crises and disaster.

Prior to her appointment at Colorado, she completed her PhD at the University of California, Irvine in Information and Computer Science and her undergraduate education in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego.  Professor Palen, who partners with CU's Natural Hazards Center, was awarded a 2006 National Science Federation Early CAREER Grant to study information dissemination in disaster events. In 2005-2006, Professor Palen was a visiting professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark in the Center for Interactive Spaces and the Center for Pervasive Healthcare.