Sandra Cortesi

Sandra Cortesi is a Digital Natives Project fellow at the Berkman Center, coordinating research and education initiatives.

Since July 2007 she has been working as a research assistant for the Digital Natives Project where she has conducted various surveys and interviews and has enjoyed dealing with topics such as identity and creativity. Within the Digital Natives Project she relishes the contact with young people and their innovative ways of thinking and also the vast communication and collaboration possibilities the internet has to offer. She has also been working for the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. In June 2009, Sandra finalized her Master's in Human Computer Interaction at the University of Basel. She wrote her Master Thesis on the topic of how to attract more users to a website by improving usability on the example of the websites of Swiss cantons.