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Dr. Marcy Towns is a Professor of Chemistry, Associate Department Head, and Director of General Chemistry at Purdue University. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement (AAAS) 2009, and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) 2012. She received the Society of College Science Teachers and National Science Teacher’s Association 2015 Outstanding Undergraduate Science Teaching Award. She has won Purdue University’s most prestigious honors for teaching including The Class of 1922 Outstanding Innovation in Helping Students Learn Award (2015) and the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (2013). She also received the chemistry department’s most prestigious honor for teaching, the Arthur B. Kelly Award in 2013. She has held a number of elected and appointed positions in American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Division of Chemical Education including the Chair in 2015 and a 9-year membership on the ACS Examinations Institute Board of Trustees. She has over 50 publications, over 900 citations, and over 100 international and national presentations. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Chemical Education, focusing on manuscripts pertaining to chemistry education research.
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Dr. Ron Blonder is a senior researcher in the Department of Science Teaching in the Weizmann Institute of Science. She completed her PhD studies in chemistry in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and then decided to study chemistry between people and not just the chemistry of matter. She is concerned about two central dimensions in chemistry education: First, currently school chemistry content often does not present contemporary chemistry and does not reflect an authentic process of chemistry knowledge utilized in modern research labs. Second, much of the pedagogy underlying chemistry teaching is not congruent with the ways young people learn today in the era of social networks. For 9 years she is faculty member in the Weizmann Institute of Science working on chemistry teacher professional development and researching the field of nano-scale science and technology education. More about Ron and her publication can be found in her Website: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/st/blonder/ |
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David A. Katz, a science communicator and expert demonstrator, earned his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Drexel University and his M.Sc. from Villanova University. He has developed some of today’s most common classroom chemistry activities, giving hundreds of live demonstrations before international audiences, conducting televised experiments and radio interviews, to providing a continuously updated website of educational chemistry activities. Through Katz’s long and experienced career he has earned 11 different awards and honors, including the Chemical Manufacturers Association National Two-Year College Chemistry Catalyst Award for outstanding college chemistry teaching and the ACS Helen Free Award for Public Outreach. |
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Cecília Galvão is Full Professor of Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa. She has considerable experience in science education in Portugal. She coordinates the science education research group and develops research in science education and teachers’ professional development. She was also the coordinator responsible for the document Curricular Guidelines for Physical and Natural Sciences for the 3rd cycle of Basic Education (12-15 age), implemented in 2002/2003, and coordinated a national project aimed at evaluating the national science curriculum (2009-2013). She also was the Portuguese coordinator of the European Project PARSEL (Popularity and Relevance of Science Education for Scientific Literacy, ended at 2009) and the Portuguese coordinator of the EU FP7 Project SAILS (Strategies for Assessment of Inquiry Learning in Science) coordinated by Dublin City University (ended at 2015). |
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Professor Maija Aksela has a 25-year-experience in chemistry education and teacher training in Finland. She has two hats: she is the director of the Unit of Chemistry Teacher Education in the Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki and the director of LUMA Centre Finland (the network for 12 universities). Professor Aksela is leading the LUMA Finland development program for math, science and technology education during years 2014-19 sponsored by Ministry of Finland. She has published about 300 papers with her group. Many research projects are going on supporting both formal and non-formal science education. One of her research interests are education for sustainable education. She has many international collaboration and activities. Professor Aksela has received altogether 14 honours or awards. See her research: papers |
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Dr Dragica Trivic, Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry. She has published six chapters in the national monographs, 56 papers in the national and international journals, 71 presentations at the national and international conferences, and nine chemistry textbooks for the university students, the secondary school students and the primary school students. She was the member of many working groups for the development: the chemistry curricula, the standards of students’ achievements at the end of the primary and the secondary schools, the standards of textbook quality and the chemistry competitions of the primary and the secondary school students. She developed the new curriculum and the new courses for pre-service chemistry teacher education as well as the programme for chemistry teachers’ professional development. |
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