Martin Bílek graduated from the Faculty of Education in Hradec Králové (Czechia) in the field of chemistry and physics teaching, obtained a Ph.D. in pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of Charles University (Prague, Czechia) and was habilitated and inaugurated in the field of theory of chemistry teaching at the Faculty of Science at the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia).
Currently he works at the Faculty of Education of Charles University, where he has successively held the positions of Head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Didactics, Vice-Dean for Science and Research and Vice-Dean for Lifelong and Distance Education. Prior to that he worked at universities in the Czech Republic (UHK, UJEP) and abroad (NTNU Trondheim, University of Maribor, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, UKF in Nitra). In his professional activity he deals mainly with didactics of chemistry and his broader range of professional interests includes didactics of natural science and technical subjects, methodology of natural science cognition, pedagogical and disciplinary didactic research, use of ICT in education and other areas related to education and applied informatics. He is a member of a number of professional societies, scientific councils and expert committees, e.g. ad-hoc committees for pedagogical disciplines of the Slovak Higher Education Accreditation Agency or vice-chairman of the Committee of the Expert Group for Chemical Education of the Czech Chemical Society. He is or has been an investigator of MOST projects from Horizon2020, MaSciL from EU FP7 or GEM from EU LC programme, several projects of GAČR, TAČR and other scientific and development projects. He has published in journals focused on science education and applied informatics and is the author of several monographs, e.g. Didactics of Chemistry - Research and Undergraduate Teaching, Towards Virtualization of School Experimental Activities, Psychogenetic Aspects of Didactics of Chemistry, Interaction of Real and Virtual Environment in Early Science Education: Tradition and Challenges and Natural Science Education in the Information Society. ID ORCID 0000-0002-1076-4595

Dr. Tuğba Yüksel, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Fizik Öğretmenliği bölümünden lisans ve MsED derecesi aldıktan sonra, 2017 yılında Purdue Üniversitesi'nde (ABD) müfredat ve fen eğitimi alanında doktora yaptı. Doktora çalışması, temel kuantum mekaniği kavramlarının model-temelli öğrenilmesi üzerineydi. 2012-2017 yılları arasında çeşitli projelerde araştırmacı olarak yer aldı ve yurt dışında fen ve fizik eğitimi projelerinde deneyim kazandı. Şu anda Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Matematik ve Fen Bilimleri Eğitimi Bölümü'nde görev yapmaktadır. Dr. Yüksel, doktora sürecinde Fen Eğitiminde Jane ve Michael Wilson Doktora Ödülü ile Dekanlık Doktora Ödülü'ne layık görüldü. Araştırmaları, bireylerin bilimsel kavramları anlamak için meta-modeller oluşturma ve uygulama süreçlerine odaklanıyor. Aynı zamanda fiziksel, matematiksel ve AR tabanlı manipülatifleri içeren model-temelli öğrenme ortamlarının tasarımı, teknoloji entegrasyonu ve okul dışı öğrenme dinamikleri üzerine projeler yürütmektedir.