Marjorie A. Zielke, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Simulation and Synthetic Humans and Professor of Research at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas). Working primarily in emerging forms of simulation focused on virtual humans, the future of work, advanced networks and learning portals, she is the UT Dallas principle investigator on several innovative simulation research projects in the education, medical, and military/law enforcement sectors. Under Dr. Zielke’s direction, the Center has formed numerous research partnerships particularly in education and training with support from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, American Medical Association, Southwestern Medical Foundation, Sam Houston State University, and the Texas Department of Transportation. The Center’s projects with colleagues have won first place for faculty twice at the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH); the U.S. Army’s Modeling and Simulation Training Team Award; the government category in the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) Serious Games Competition; the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) Cross-Functional Simulation Award; and the NTSA award for Education and Human Performance. Dr. Zielke served a fellowship in 2018 with the Special Operations Command as a Donovan Fellow through SOFWERX. Dr. Zielke is a member of the NTSA Advisory Committee. Dr. Zielke has a Ph.D. focused on Arts and Technology, Brain Science and Marketing through the UT Dallas Arts and Humanities school, a Masters in International Business from the University of Dallas and an MBA from UT Arlington focused on Management Information Systems and Marketing. Dr. Zielke has several years of industry as well as academic administration leadership experience.