Prof.Dr. Michael F. Shaughnessy is currently Professor of Educational Studies at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico USA. He has served as Editor in Chief of Gifted Education International and can be reached electronically at Michael.Shaughnessy@enmu.edu. His orcid i.d. is 0000 0002 1877 1319. His current research interests include talent development and intellectual assessment as well as the role of personality in giftedness, talent and creativity.

Hasan Tinmaz completed his undergraduate studies at Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkiye) in the Faculty of Education, Computer Education Department in 2001, he graduated from the same university's Graduate Program in Curriculum and Instruction in 2004. Having completed his doctoral studies with his thesis on the uses, gratification and integration of social media in Middle East Technical University, Computer Education and Instructional Technologies program, he still works as an Assist. Professor in AI & Big Data department of Endicott College of International Studies, Woosong University (Daejeon, South Korea). His research areas are social media, educational technology, curriculum and instruction design, technology management, psychological and sociological issues in technology, technology planning, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse. 

Research interests

STEM Integration; Teacher Professional Development; Teacher Induction

Associate Professor PhD, Mojca Kukanja Gabrijelčič, Director of Center of Giftedness and Creativity, University of Primorska, Faculty of Education. In the field of research, she is mainly concerned with the development of didactics; studies the design of curricula and teaching materials for the social sciences and alternative didactic strategies for teaching in higher education. In addition to didactics, her longterm research is directed towards gifted and talented students, finding (identifying) gifted students in primary school, in history classes and discovering gifted children in preschool, developing didactic strategies for working with the gifted and talent children. Her important contribution in the field of gifted education is mainly in the measurement tool, as she was the first in Slovenia to create an assessment scale for discovering gifted students in history and also for gifted preschoolers. ORCID: 0000-0003-0682-613X
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mojca-Kukanja-Gabrijelcic

Albert Ziegler, PhD, is Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and Research on Excellence at the University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany. He is the Founding Director of the Statewide Counseling and Research Center for the Gifted. He has published approximately 400 books, chapters and articles in the fields of talent development and educational psychology. He developed the Actiotope Model of Giftedness, which promotes a systemic conception of giftedness. In his research, his main interests are learning resources and effective learning environments, self-regulated learning, mentoring, and gifted identification. Presently, he serves as the Vice President of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA), and as Chairman of the European Talent Support Network (ETSN). In 2017, he was appointed Director of the World Giftedness Center in Dubai.