GIREP-MPTL 2026 Conference, Rethymno, Crete, Greece

Name: GIREP-MPTL 2026 Conference, Rethymno, Crete, Greece
Start: 2026-07-06T09:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-07-10T22:30:00+03:00
Location: No location set

6–10 Jul 2026

Europe/Athens timezone

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GIREP-MPTL 2026 Local Organizing Committee

girep2026@edc.uoc.gr

Speaker List

Vitor Acioly (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
- Speaker at The Impact of Scientific Outreach on Nuclear and Particle Physics Research in Brazil After Its Admission as an Associate Member of CERN
- Speaker at The Sirius School for High School Teachers: continuing education, cutting-edge science, and scientific literacy.
Dariusz Aksamit (Warsaw University of Technology)
- Speaker at What limits epistemic and methodological rigor in school research projects?
Carsten Albert
- Speaker at Student Conceptions of Quantum Concepts and Phenomena in Lower Secondary Education
Micol Alemani
- Speaker at Student-instructor interaction in physics labs: a collegial exchange of experiences, research findings, and remaining challenges
kosntantinos alexiou (University Of Western Macedonia)
- Speaker at Inclusive Teaching Activities for Nanoscience-Nanotechnology Content in Primary Schools: The Case of the Gecko Effect
Katalin Antalné Csorba
- Speaker at Game-Inspired Learning Strategies for Primary School Physics Education
Tetyana Antimirova (Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University))
- Speaker at Physics of Light and Color Learned Through Visual Arts
- Speaker at Physics of Pilates and Yoga: Experiential Learning in Introductory Mechanics
Keito Aoyama
- Speaker at A Study on Japanese Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Infrared Radiation and Implications for Instructional Material Development
Keito AOYAMA
- Speaker at Simple and Beautiful Experiments XIV by LADY CATS and Science Teachers’ Group
Catalina Arboleda (University of Colorado Boulder)
- Speaker at Towards a Justice-Oriented Physics Education
Wolfgang Aschauer
- Speaker at Learning Physics by Performing It: Effects of LIVE ACTs on Conceptual Understanding in the Areas of Particulate Nature of Matter and Optics
itay bahar
- Speaker at Tentative or Valid: Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Following Quantum Physics Instructions
Mo Basir
- Speaker at Faculty Online Learning Communities: Sustaining Inquiry-Based Teaching in Physics Education
Onofrio Rosario Battaglia
- Speaker at Rasch-based validation of the Heat and Temperature Conceptual Evaluation: implications for teaching introductory thermodynamics
Ian Gardner Bearden (University of Copenhagen (DK))
- Speaker at Student-instructor interaction in physics labs: a collegial exchange of experiences, research findings, and remaining challenges
ALESSIO BELLINO
- Speaker at Ventana Celeste: A Scalable Phygital Ecosystem for Astronomy Education ranging from Museum to Home
Ludmila Belogrudova (University of Latvia)
- Speaker at Adapting Khan Academy videos in physics for blended learning at secondary school
Pierre Benard
- Speaker at Enhancing Physics Education in Canada
Izabella Julia Benczik (Eszterhazy Karoly Catholic University Eger)
- Speaker at Portable experimental kits as tools for inclusion: supporting disadvantaged learners through inquiry
Yossi Ben Zion (Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel)
- Speaker at From Search to GenAI Queries: Global Trends in Physics Information-Seeking Across Topics and Regions
Aleksandra Biegun (KVI-Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen)
- Speaker at Enhancing Radiation Safety Awareness through Virtual Reality in Physics Laboratory undergraduate courses
- Speaker at Ensuring Consistency in Assessing Scientific Writing, Presentations, and Teamwork in Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Courses
Valentina Bologna
- Speaker at Multiple Representations: a practical approach to enhance teaching practices
Valentina Bologna
- Speaker at Role of Habits and Routines in Problem Posing and Problem Solving in Physics.
Maria Bondani (CNR - Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies)
- Speaker at Quantum Science and Technology for High Schools: a summer school for in-service teachers
Maria Bondani (Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie-CNR-IFN, Como, Italy)
- Speaker at EPR Paradox and Bell’s Inequalities in High School
Arpad Bordas
- Speaker at Analysis of citizen science weather station data series
Andreas Borowski
- Speaker at Incremental Effects of Mathematical Prior Knowledge and Physics Prior Knowledge on Passing Exams in Physics
Dejan Bošnjaković (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek)
- Speaker at Applying probabilistic machine learning method on FCI test for identification of most frequent misconceptions among STEM students at University of Osijek, Croatia
ELENI BOTZAKI (University of Crete)
- Speaker at Designing Formative Assessment Activities for Climate Change Competencies by Pre-Service Primary Teachers
Shachar Boublil
- Speaker at Teaching Einsteinian Energy in secondary school: Why do we need it?
Wim Bouwman (Delft University of Technology)
- Speaker at Integrating Theory, Math, and Experimentation: A Theme Park Project in Applied Physics Education
- Speaker at Reconstructing 3D theme park ride trajectories using smartphones for illustrating mechanics
Laura Branchetti (Dipartimento di Matematica "F. Enriques", Università degli Studi di Milano)
- Speaker at Regenerating science education for a sustainable world: interdisciplinarity, new languages, and futures thinking in the FEDORAS Academy
Marton Burkovics
- Speaker at Automated Assessment in Practice: Grading Short-Answer Physics Questions with Large Language Models
Esmeralda Campos (University of Vienna)
- Speaker at From Reality to Representations and Equations: Designing a Teacher-Training Activity
- Speaker at Methodologies for research students’ ideas in introductory physics courses
Marta Carli
- Speaker at Impact of a two-tier teacher learning community on teachers’ views of physics labs and innovative lab technologies
MARINA CARPINETI (Dipartimento di Fisica - Università degli Studi di Milano)
- Speaker at An Educational Pathways to Link Light and Vision in a Visual Arts High School as a Model for a Teacher Training Program
Saul Casalone (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
- Speaker at Bridging Ethnography and Energy-System Models to Foster Futures-Oriented Agency in Contested Energy Transitions
- Speaker at Designing Interdisciplinary Educational Practices to Address Social Tensions in the Energy Transition
Ianka Ivonne Castillo Gutiérrez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- Speaker at Multidisciplinary contextualization: integrating physics and environmental problems in high school
Rodrigo Castillo Vasquez (Chapman University)
- Speaker at Teaching Physics and Astronomy with NASA HEAT
Daša Červeňová (Comenius University)
- Speaker at Developing a Pillar-Based Coding Scheme for Analysing Learning Materials in Physics Education Research
Marilu Chiofalo
- Speaker at “Playing with Quanta”: an Introductory Course to Quantum Mechanics
- Speaker at A Progressive Modelling Pathway with the Water Rocket
MARILU CHIOFALO (Department of Physics, University of Pisa)
- Speaker at Experiences, Games, Story Telling and Art performance to promote the quantum mechanics understanding
Enrico Chiosini (Universidade de São Paulo)
- Speaker at Identifying Potential Interdisciplinary Curricular Practices for Initial Physics Teacher Education
Immacolata D'Acunto (Department of Phisics, University of Salerno)
- Speaker at Introducing gravitational time dilation in high school: a rigorous yet accessible approach
Filippa Dalesjo (University of Copenhagen (DK))
- Speaker at The effect of embodiment on science identity and belonging in physics education – the case of ionizing radiation
Jens Damköhler
- Speaker at Keeping Responsibility Human: A Consensus Workflow for ChatGPT-Assisted Qualitative Content Analysis
Rostislav Danel
- Speaker at Developing and Validating a Physics-Context Scientific Literacy Test for Lower Secondary Students
Mieke De Cock
- Speaker at Methodologies for research students’ ideas in introductory physics courses
Leonardo De Deo (University of Bologna - INAF/OAS)
- Speaker at Cosmic Roots: connecting Cosmos to the Earth for people with disabilities
- Speaker at Observing the sky with different sights: narrating Astrophysics with cinematic storytelling
Valentina DE RENZI
- Speaker at From a Zombie activity to the Hydrogen atom: Exploring the eigenvalue problem in high-school quantum physics
Melania Deresz (University of Warsaw)
- Speaker at CREDO-edu – preliminary research results of students involved in the citizen science project
Carolina de Souza (Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar))
- Speaker at The physics teacher as an attractor of signs: learning through signs in an art-science activity about physics and war
Kyriaki DIMITRIADI (Experimental Junior High School of Rethymnon)
- Speaker at Regenerating science education for a sustainable world: interdisciplinarity, new languages, and futures thinking in the FEDORAS Academy
Leandro do Nascimento Silva
- Speaker at Integrating Futures-Thinking into STEM: A Study on Technological Development and Narrative Construction
Yasmin dos Santos Gusmão
- Speaker at Caloric and Vibrational Models – Nature of Science in Experimental Activities
Zofia Drabek
- Speaker at From “The Little Prince” to Light Refraction: Inquiry-Based (IBL) Optics with Everyday Materials
Mateo Dutra Shaw (Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR)
- Speaker at Evaluating the Impact of a Real-Time Graph-Based Motion Environment on Engineering Students’ Understanding of Kinematics
Daniel Guillermo Elizondo Blanco (CONARE)
- Speaker at Use of Remote Laboratories in Physics Olympiads in Costa Rica
Urban Eriksson
- Speaker at The Scale of it all: Student understanding of the size of the Solar System
Sergej Faletic
- Speaker at Multiple Representations: a practical approach to enhance teaching practices
Tamara Fekete-Nagy (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem)
- Speaker at Application of Arduino-Controlled Sensors in Teaching Gas Laws
Olivia Fischer
- Speaker at Designing Engaging and Societally Relevant Physics Workshops for Early Teens: A Case Study from CERN Science Gateway
Bart Folkers
- Speaker at “I need some structure and support”: Teacher Competence and Perspectives on the Quantum Dice Analogy
Moritz Förster (TU Dresden)
- Speaker at Pre-service and In-service Teachers’ Mathematical Reasoning and Sense-Making in Quantum Physics
- Speaker at Teaching the Mathematical Formalism of Quantum Physics in Secondary Schools – Teachers’ Perspectives
Karl Henrik Fredly (University of Oslo)
- Speaker at How students use Generative AI for computational modeling in physics
James Freericks
- Speaker at How to Teach What a Photon Really Is
Alberto Frontino Crisafulli
- Speaker at Designing and testing a representation-based learning path on General Relativity for a secondary school classroom
Tereza Fürstová (Department of Physics Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague)
- Speaker at Pilot Testing of a New Upper Secondary School Physics Textbook
Lucia Gabelli (University of Padova)
- Speaker at ToPLab: Innovation in Physics Labs through Faculty Learning Communities
Dennys Gahrmann (Physics Education, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
- Speaker at Insights from a large national study on Physics freshmen: A blueprint for an international comparative study
Pietro Paolo Gambelli (Università di Trento)
- Speaker at An Escape Room–Based Game for Introducing Fundamental Concepts of Quantum Physics
Stephen Gammell (Dublin City University)
- Speaker at Development of an undergraduate laboratory to support students’ understanding of daily celestial motion
Marzia Garzetti (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI))
- Speaker at Miming physics: kinaesthetic activities to enhance understanding. The case of the speed of sound.
Giusy Giarratano
- Speaker at Conceptual learning and science self-efficacy in primary school: A comparison between inquiry-based and traditional
Marco Giliberti (Università degli Studi di Milano)
- Speaker at Integrating History and NOS in Physics Education: A Module on Isotopes
Caterina Giovanzana (Università degli Studi di Trento)
- Speaker at Supporting Physics Teachers’ Use of Augmented Reality through a Community of Practice
Aristotelis Gkiolmas (Department (School) of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- Speaker at The Teaching of Physics, as Related to Truth and Falsehood (Lie): Views in an Era of Rapid Changes and Technological Developments.
Stefan Gritsch (Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark)
- Speaker at Out-of-Field Physics Teachers’ Lesson Planning Practices and Implications for Targeted Professional Development
Jonathan Grothaus (Universität Würzburg)
- Speaker at Linking Climate Knowledge with Societal Participation: Findings from the Student Laboratory Labs4Future
Jenaro Guisasola
- Speaker at Challenges in Experimental Content-focused PER
- Speaker at Methodologies for research students’ ideas in introductory physics courses
ELVIRA GUTIERREZ JIMENEZ (UPV/EHU)
- Speaker at Design Based Research to design a Teaching-Learning Sequence about Moon phases and eclipses
Ardiana Hanatan
- Speaker at First-Year Students’ Awareness of Mastery in Physics and What Influences It?
Emese Hanolné Toldy
- Speaker at Introducing AI-supported problem solving in lower secondary science education. Insights from a large-scale student competition
Gilad Hazaraty Zohar
- Speaker at Designing Diagnostic-Dialogic Chatbot Activities: integrating generative AI in physics peer dialogue
Paula Heron
- Speaker at Challenges in Experimental Content-focused PER
- Speaker at Methodologies for research students’ ideas in introductory physics courses
Veronica Ilari (Department of Physics and Astronomy “A. Righi”, University of Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, 40126, Bologna, Italy)
- Speaker at Complex systems science as an educational lever for thinking open and multiple futures
Kazi Aatish Imroz (The Ohio State University)
- Speaker at Developing a Coding Scheme for Categorizing Introductory Physics Textbook Problems
Maria Ioannidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Speaker at Designing and Implementing a Teaching–Learning Sequence on Stellar Evolution
Kyoko ISHII
- Speaker at Simple and Beautiful Experiments XIV by LADY CATS and Science Teachers’ Group
Lana Ivanjek (JKU Linz)
- Speaker at Assessing Secondary School Students’ Understanding of the Energy Conservation Law
Lana Ivanjek
- Speaker at Energy bar diagrams
Zuzana Jeskova
- Speaker at Interdisciplinary STEM Activities and Teacher Professional Development for Effective Implementation
Mirela Kaczmarek (University of Wrocław)
- Speaker at Uncertainty as a Framework for Developing Critical Thinking in School Physics
Floor Kamphorst (NTNU)
- Speaker at Eliciting Initial Learning in Special Relativity
Marika Kapanadze
- Speaker at Digital Transformation of Physics Teaching Through TPACK
nikos2 kapelonis2 (University of Crete)
- Speaker at test submission
Efstratios Kapotis (Science and Technology Museum, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
- Speaker at From Static Museum Exhibits to “Transparent” Learning Tools: Extending Museum-Based Science Learning at the NKUA Science and Technology Museum
Kim Kappl (Universität Stuttgart, Physik und ihre Didaktik, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany)
- Speaker at Development of an experiment to demonstrate the photon statistics of a thermal light source
Elina Karagiannidou (Department of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- Speaker at The Role of School Laboratory Equipment in Empowering Future Educators
Ricardo Karam
- Speaker at Griffiths’ quantum mechanics vs. Schrödinger’s four lectures
- Speaker at An intersection of linear algebra, complex numbers, and quantum computing: The case of the Bloch sphere
Asako Kariya
- Speaker at Development of Art-Integrated Physics Teaching Materials to Reduce the Gender Gap in Physics Learning
Asako KARIYA
- Speaker at Simple and Beautiful Experiments XIV by LADY CATS and Science Teachers’ Group
Ifigeneia Karyoti
- Speaker at Inquiry-Based Educational Experimentation for Pupils / Students at the Science and Technology Museum of the NKUA
Alexandros Kateris (Consultant of Education in Natural Sciences, Directorate of Secondary Education East Attika, Athens)
- Speaker at Designing Interactive Screen Experiments for Complex Physics Apparatus: A Strategy Based on a Case Study on the Determination of the Electron Charge-to-Mass Ratio
Martina Kekule
- Speaker at Exploring Depth: 3D Vision and Anaglyph Imaging in Physics Education
- Speaker at Students’ Visual Attention and Misconceptions in Kinematics Graphs: An Eye-Tracking and Cluster Analysis Study
Sofia Kelesidou
- Speaker at Gender-Emotion Stereotypes in STEM: A Review from Early Childhood to Emerging Adulthood
Willem Keppens
- Speaker at Impact of Accurate Scale Comprehension on Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Astronomical Phenomena
Marian Kires (Institute of Physics Faculty of Science UPJS in Košice, Slovakia)
- Speaker at Blended learning in student preparation for physics competitions
Dan Klein (Weizmann Institute of Science)
- Speaker at SYMPOSIUM – The interplay between mathematics and physics: What we say, what we do
R.J.H. Klein-Douwel (University of Groningen)
- Speaker at Design of teacher assistant training for supporting inquiry-based physics labs
Ebba Koerfer
- Speaker at SYMPOSIUM – The interplay between mathematics and physics: What we say, what we do
Athanasia Kokolaki (University of Crete)
- Speaker at Regenerating science education for a sustainable world: interdisciplinarity, new languages, and futures thinking in the FEDORAS Academy
Petr Kolář (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics)
- Speaker at Examples of the Interdisciplinary Use of Arduino Platform
Aneta Kolodzejová (Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
- Speaker at Enhancing Students’ Critical Thinking in Physics through Context-Based Teaching: A Research Framework
Inkeri Kontro
- Speaker at Lecture exercises for active learning in large physics classes
Dominika Korcanova
- Speaker at Use of virtual laboratories in inclusive education
Péter Kosztyó (Eötvös Loránd University)
- Speaker at Beyond Pattern Matching: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of 13 Large Language Models on the Hungarian National Physics Exam
Konstantina Kotsari (CTI Diophantus)
- Speaker at Innovation Centres as Cyber-Physical Learning Ecosystems for Early STEM Education: A Design-Based Scenario on Motion, Energy and Robotics in Primary School
Anna Koumara
- Speaker at Embedding Nature of Scientific Knowledge in 11th Grade Physics: Design, Implementation, and Reflections
Athanasia Kourkouli
- Speaker at Developing a two-year physics laboratory curriculum for upper secondary education
Katarína Kozelková
- Speaker at Examining pre-service physics education programmes in Slovakia and Ireland
- Speaker at Investigating physics teachers’ conceptions of the spring constant
Stefan Kraus (Lehrstuhl für Physik & ihre Didaktik, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg)
- Speaker at PUMA : Optics Lab: Experimenting without boundaries – development and evaluation of a web-based augmented reality simulation for physics education
Rok Kuk (University of Ljubljana)
- Speaker at Design and Implementation of Activities on the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect
Nicolas Labrosse (University of Glasgow)
- Speaker at A Vision for Physics Higher Education Research in the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Speaker at Soft Barriers to Coding: How Subtle Inequalities Carry Real Consequences in Physics Education
Nicolas Labrosse (University of Glasgow)
- Speaker at What makes a physicist? Legitimate Peripheral Participation and Physics Identity Development in Higher Education
Gabriel Lanzillotta
- Speaker at Incorporating complex socioscientific problems into physics teacher education: agency under uncertainty
Panagiotis Lazos (1. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 2. Open University of Greece)
- Speaker at Designing Interactive Screen Experiments for Complex Physics Apparatus: A Strategy Based on a Case Study on the Determination of the Electron Charge-to-Mass Ratio
- Speaker at Historical Scientific Instruments in Science Festivals: Challenges and Opportunities
Ioannis Lefkos (Laboratory of informatics and Robotics in Education and Society, University of Macedonia)
- Speaker at STEM/STEAM Education in Centres for Creative Activities of Children: Perceptions and Practices of Educators
Cristina Leite (Universidade de São Paulo (USP))
- Speaker at Interdisciplinary Teacher Training in the Cosmos Course through a Dialogue between History, Astronomy and Education
Rosaria Lena
- Speaker at Quantum Games as Standalone Learning Tools: Measuring Conceptual Gains and Motivation Across Diverse Audiences
Hadas Levi (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Lev Academic Center)
- Speaker at From Physmatic Difficulties to Physmatic Pedagogical Action
Olivia Levrini
- Speaker at Regenerating science education for a sustainable world: interdisciplinarity, new languages, and futures thinking in the FEDORAS Academy
Smadar Levy
- Speaker at Closing the Circuit: Using a Physics Cards Game to Support Knowledge Organization in Electric Circuits
Antonella Liccardo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
- Speaker at Rethinking Science Education Through Gender and Marginality: Engaging Students to Analyze Gender Roles and Inequalities in STEM Contexts
- Speaker at Frattart: Revisiting Fractal Geometry in Physics and Mathematics Education through Interdisciplinary Co-Design
Philipp Lindenau (Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik)
- Speaker at Space Radio Workshops – Secondary School Students and Educators Explore the Milky Way with DIY Radio Telescopes
Kerstin Lindmaier (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)
- Speaker at Development and Evaluation of a new teaching sequence for mechanics in middle school
Stefania Lippiello
- Speaker at Designing Inquiry-Based Physics Learning with Historical Scientific Instruments: The Case of the INSIGHT Telescope Toolkit
- Speaker at SYMPOSIUM – The interplay between mathematics and physics: What we say, what we do
Uri Livne (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Speaker at Systematic Review of Empirical Studies on the Concept Image of Energy
Paul Logman (Leiden University)
- Speaker at Student-instructor interaction in physics labs: a collegial exchange of experiences, research findings, and remaining challenges
Andrea Lopez-Incera
- Speaker at Teaching science with AI: integration of inquiry and modelling-based learning in AI scaffolded teaching units.
Margareta Lovkovic (Strukovna škola Đurđevac, Croatia / FMF Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Speaker at Using Analogies as Conceptual Checkpoints in Thermodynamics
Hendrik Maas
- Speaker at How do learners use AI tutors during experimental problem solving?
Flora Mantelaki
- Speaker at Interactive Archaeometric Simulations as Inquiry Tools in Secondary Science Education: A Teacher Evaluation
K K Mashood (Modeling and Conceptual Change Group, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
- Speaker at Blending Mathematical Model-building and Futures-Oriented Science Education (FOSE)
- Speaker at Investigating students’ shift to probabilistic thinking through the exploration of an agent-based model
Karolina Matejak Cvenic (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Bijenička c. 32, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia)
- Speaker at Effectiveness of an inquiry-based teaching sequence on energy for secondary school
- Speaker at How students use energy bar diagrams in problem solving: insights from eye-tracking and interviews
Jun MATSUKAWA
- Speaker at Simple and Beautiful Experiments XIV by LADY CATS and Science Teachers’ Group
Eilish McLoughlin
- Speaker at Developing Physics Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge through Practitioner Inquiry
Chiara Menotti (Pitaevskii BEC Center, CNR-INO, Trento, Italy)
- Speaker at Hands-on models for addressing quantum entanglement in secondary education
Eliane Merki
- Speaker at Inventory of Galilean Transformation of uniform linear motion in position-time graphs
Avraham Merzel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Speaker at Teaching Energy as Coherent Crosscutting Concept - International Researchers-Practitioners Partnership
Lorenzo Miani
- Speaker at Narrating Complexity: Bridging Physics Education and Literature in a Futures-Oriented Climate Change Laboratory
Emily Michailidi (University of Crete)
- Speaker at ENerGISE: Supporting inclusive science education through climate-focused STEM and SSI teacher training
- Speaker at Pre-service primary teachers’ perspectives on gender and science identity
- Speaker at Teachers’ professional development on future-oriented thinking in the context of open schooling networks
- Speaker at Design and implementation of STEM lessons on climate change by primary and secondary education teachers.
Marisa Michelini (University of Udine)
- Speaker at Challenges in Experimental Content-focused PER
Magdalena Micoloi
- Speaker at Simulation of a Climate Change Conference: a Project-Based Learning Approach
Takahiko Miyakawa (Aichi University of Education)
- Speaker at Cultivating Higher-Order Learning in Upper Secondary Physics through Performance-Based Tasks and Formative Assessment: A Three-Year Longitudinal Practice-Based Study
Marta Mlynczyk (Nauczyciel fizyki w Liceum Ogólnokształcącym Nr XII im. Boleslawa Chrobrego we Wroclawiu)
- Speaker at Uncertainty as a Framework for Developing Critical Thinking in School Physics
Vera Montalbano (University of Siena)
- Speaker at A non-formal interdisciplinary learning path on nuclear phenomena for physics orientation
- Speaker at Physics education research in pre-service teacher training on conceptual needs for fostering active learning in school
Eduardo Montero (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL))
- Speaker at From Flipped Preparation to Collaborative Integration: Case Puzzle and Generative AI
- Speaker at Guided AI Socratic Tutoring in Electricity and Magnetism: A Pilot Implementation
Cesar Mora
- Speaker at Kolb cycle supported with simulators for teaching the second law of thermodynamics for engineering students
Cesar Mora (Instituto Politécnico Nacional)
- Speaker at Designing a Regional STEM Education Graduate Program in Latin America: Remote Laboratories, Distance Learning, and Research Networks
Alexandros Mpatzos
- Speaker at Primary School Teachers' Views on the Integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Science Education
BERIKOU MYRTO
- Speaker at Development, Implementation, and Assessment of a Series of Inclusive Activities to Enhance Primary School Students’ Control-of-Variables Strategy Skills
Jaroslav Nauš
- Speaker at From survey to classroom design: Developing and piloting smartphone-based physics activities to foster DiKoLAN-aligned digital competences
- Speaker at Mobile Devices in Czech Physics Teaching: Use Patterns, Barriers, and Enabling Conditions
Argyris Nipyrakis (University of Crete)
- Speaker at Dramatised Experiments: Pre-service Teachers Integrating Drama in the School Laboratory
- Speaker at Photos of the Future: Pre-Service Teachers’ Visions and Aspirations for the Future in Sustainability Issues
Gregor Obermüller
- Speaker at Energy bar diagrams
kana ofir (Weizmann Institute of Science)
- Speaker at Playing to Learn, Planning to Teach: Physics Teachers’ Pedagogical Profiles in Implementing Card Games
ANASTASIA OIKONOMOU
- Speaker at Exploring Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions on Inclusive Inquiry-Based Physics Teaching and Learning
Fumiko Okiharu
- Speaker at Eye-Tracking and Verbal Protocol Analysis of Students’ Interpretation of Kinematics Graphs
Fumiko OKIHARU
- Speaker at Simple and Beautiful Experiments XIV by LADY CATS and Science Teachers’ Group
Matteo Onate Orozco (University of Insubria, Department of Science and High Technology, Como, Italy)
- Speaker at Physics Education with performing arts: The Physical Clown
Haruka Onishi
- Speaker at Origami-Based Benham’s Disk Model
- Speaker at Simple and Beautiful Experiments XIV by LADY CATS and Science Teachers’ Group
Pasquale Onorato (University of Trento)
- Speaker at Investigating Experts’ and Teachers’ Perspectives on Teaching Special Relativity Theory at Secondary School: Didactical approaches, Historical Controversies, Hero Narratives, and Gender Disparities
İrem Ören
- Speaker at Non-Commutative Reasoning in Heat and Temperature: A Quantum-Like Modeling of Students' Misconceptions in Thermodynamics
Giovanni Organtini (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
- Speaker at Classical Physics as a Continuation of Quantum Thinking: An Energy-First Reconstruction
Aku Pajula
- Speaker at Dirac notation and Born rule as epistemic game when describing quantum optical experiments
- Speaker at Undergraduate students’ ways of using the concept of the photon in quantum optical experiments
Elina Palmgren
- Speaker at Student knowledge profiles and alternative conceptions in DC circuits
Michelangelo Panza (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
- Speaker at Gender Gap beyond ‘Science’: what Discipline-disaggregated, Item-level Analysis reveals in PISA 2015
- Speaker at Physics educators challenging the 'myth of neutrality'
Maria Parappilly (Flinders University)
- Speaker at Physics Teacher Upskilling: Outcomes from a Physics Skills Enhancement Micro‑Credential Delivery
- Speaker at Guided Inquiry-based learning using checkpoints in Physics lab
Georgios Parnavellis (University of the Aegean)
- Speaker at Students’ Perceptions of Bohr’s Model and the Conceptual Transition from Classical to Quantum Physics in Greek Upper Secondary Education
Lazaros Pelekas (Laboratory of Science Education & Educational Technology, School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Speaker at Implementation of a Teaching-Learning Sequence on Wetting Phenomena in Secondary Education
Joao Pereira (UNIRIO)
- Speaker at Physics Highlights of Electric Guitars
Maurício Pietrocola (Department of Teaching Methodology and Comparative Education / Faculty of Education, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
- Speaker at Regenerating science education for a sustainable world: interdisciplinarity, new languages, and futures thinking in the FEDORAS Academy
Giulia Polverini (Uppsala University)
- Speaker at How reasoning helps large language models read physics images
Gesche Pospiech
- Speaker at The Role of Group Size for Two-Round Quantum Physics Problem Solving
Rebecca Raskin (KU Leuven)
- Speaker at Why East Isn’t Always East: Students’ Difficulties with Cardinal Directions in Explaining the Sun’s Apparent Motion
Guillermo Regodón (Department of Physics, University of Córdoba)
- Speaker at Guided simulation activity for spin visualization and spin matrix algebra: an Item Response Analysis
Tom Reshef-Israeli (Technion Israel Institute of Technology)
- Speaker at SYMPOSIUM – The interplay between mathematics and physics: What we say, what we do
Patrik Rezák (Comenius University)
- Speaker at Analysis of Pupils’ Problem-Solving Difficulties in the Physics Olympiad
sara ricciardi (INAF OAS)
- Speaker at Lunatario: A Play-Based Epistemic Resource for Spatial Reasoning in Early Astronomy Learning
- Speaker at Making Sense of Science through Tinkering: Evolution of Children’s Research Questions
Francesca Riccioni (Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Bologna)
- Speaker at Epistemic Emotions in-the-Making. Exploring Discovery Narratives from the History of Physics
- Speaker at Exploring Epistemic Affect in Kinematics Problem-Solving
Jan Říha (Palacky University in Olomouc, Faculty of Science)
- Speaker at The correlation between high school students' understanding of physical and non-physical graphs
Marina Ristol Roura (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech)
- Speaker at Identifying Students’ Conceptions about Force Identification and Newton’s First Law: A Large-Scale Study of First-Year Engineering Students
Jorge Roblero (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral)
- Speaker at Guided AI Socratic Tutoring in Electricity and Magnetism: A Pilot Implementation
Eduardo Rocha (Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar))
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Drew Rosen (University of Edinburgh)
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Italo Testa (University Federico II Naples)
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