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Professor of Mathematics Education and holder of the Chair of Mathematics V (Didactics of Mathematics) at Würzburg. His work covers mathematical modelling, real-world applications, digital tools, assessment, STEM and task design. Two current strands stand out: Education for Sustainable Development in mathematics, and the role of generative AI, digital tools and learning analytics in teaching and learning. He completed his doctorate at the University of Salzburg in 2006 and his habilitation at the University of Vienna in 2012, and held a professorship at Koblenz-Landau before joining Würzburg in 2017.

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion and head of the MtED (Mathematics Teacher Education and Development) Lab. Her research looks at mathematical modelling in authentic technological contexts drawn from STEM fields, and at the design and large-scale implementation of modelling tasks with teachers and students. She is PI of i-MAT (Integrated Mathematics and Technology), now used nationwide in Israel and embedded in the middle-school curriculum. She was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford in 2015-2016.

Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Fort Hare, recently retired as Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning. A former high school mathematics teacher, she became full professor and Dean of Education at UKZN. She holds an MPhil from Cambridge and a dr.scient. from Aalborg University, which later awarded her an honorary doctorate. With more than 90 publications, she is known internationally for work on the social, cultural and political dimensions of mathematics education. She holds an NRF B-rating and is a member of ASSAf.

Professor in the Faculty of Education at Saitama University. His PhD from the Tokyo University of Science focused on evaluating mathematical modelling competencies, and his thesis was published by Kyoritsu Shuppan in 2018. He was secretary general of ICTMA21 in Japan in 2023 and chairs the editorial board of the International Journal of Research on Mathematics and Science Education. He served as an International Quality Control Monitor for TIMSS 2011 and as a JICA education specialist.

Associate Professor in Mathematics Education at the University of Valencia and a former secondary school teacher. Her research covers modelling processes of students and prospective teachers, problem solving, estimation and representations, with a sustained focus on Fermi problems. She co-leads CERME TWG06 (Modelling and Applications), is an editor of the Journal of Mathematical Behavior, and coordinates IMMC-Spain. She has taken part in ICTMA since Nottingham in 2015.

Associate Professor in Mathematics Education at the Universitat de Barcelona. Her research is grounded in the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic and focuses on modelling, inquiry-based teaching and teacher education, in particular Study and Research Paths. She has led several Spanish research projects, co-chaired INDRUM 4, led the CERME working group on Applications and Modelling, and serves on the boards of SEIEM and ERME.

Head of the School of Pathology at Wits. During the TB and COVID-19 crises his team developed the first biologically safe "biomimetic" diagnostic controls, which led to the Wits spin-out SmartSpot Quality, now supporting diagnostics in more than 80 countries. His research in tuberculosis biology led to a novel vaccine candidate. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and has received the NRF Societal Impact Award and the SAMRC Scientific Merit Awards.

Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Hamburg since 1998 and senior professor since 2021. Her research covers teacher education and professionalism, the teaching and learning of modelling, international comparative studies, and gender and cultural aspects of mathematics education. She has been Editor-in-chief of ZDM Mathematics Education since 2005 and was Convenor of ICME-13 in Hamburg in 2016.