J. Bernardino Lopes holds a PhD and Aggregation in Physics Education. Associate Professor of UTAD (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro). Researcher of Research Centre CIDTFF - Research Centre “Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers and coordinator of a research lab of this centre. Former President of Scientific Council, Pedagogical Council and Head of Department at UTAD. Currently is Director of doctoral program: “Science and Technology Education Research” at UTAD. Invited Editor of scientific journals and referee in JCR journals. Consultant in a professional development center. Author/editor of books (international edition) and papers in international scientific journals with peer review. Present research interests include Sciences and Technological Education Research, in particular: i) Curriculum design and evaluation of teaching; ii) Teacher mediation of student learning; iii) Teaching practices (questions, tasks, inquiry, epistemic practices, decisions, engagement, assessment, CTS contexts, interactions, practical work); iv) Conceptual learning; v) Tools for data collection in classroom; vi) computer simulation; vii) tools (beneficial and epistemic) to enhance C&T learning viii) Teacher education and Teacher professional development; ix) Philosophy of Science.
Maria Clara Viegas holds a PhD in Science and Technology and a MSc in Mechanical Engineering. Currently she is an Adjunct Professor in Polytechnic of Porto – School of Engineering (ISEP), Porto, Portugal. Researcher in CIETI Research Centre - Centre for Innovation in Engineering and Industrial Technology. Former member of the Pedagogical Council and Vice-Head of Physics Department at ISEP. Participant in several national and international research projects. Invited chair in International Conferences and referee in JCR journals. Author of several papers in international scientific journals, book chapters and international conferences with peer review. Her present research interests are: Engineering Education; Physics Didactics; Science and Technological Education Research, in particular Teacher mediation of student learning and Teaching practices Teacher professional development; Remote Labs Learning Outcomes.
José Alexandre Pinto holds a PhD in Didactics of Science and technology and a MSc in Science Teaching Supervision. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor in Polytechnic of Porto – School of Education, Porto, Portugal. He is currently the Vice-President of the School of Education. Previously, he was director of the department of Mathematics, Science and Technology (between 2016-2018). He is also a researcher at the Research Centre “Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers” (CIDTFF) at the University of Aveiro. His research interests are in the areas of Teacher Education, Science Teaching Supervision and STEM Education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education). He has participated in several funded research projects and is author or coauthor of books, book chapters, peer-reviewed papers and conference communications.