Jose Diego Mantecón (University of Cantabria)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4427-2724
Dr. Jose M. Diego-Mantecón received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics education from Cambridge University (UK). He is currently working from University of Cantabria and he has large experience on developing and working on international projects. He was part of the Millennium Mathematics Project (MMP) of the University of Cambridge, which is directed by the theoretical physicist and mathematician John Barrow. As part of the MMP, Jose was responsible for several years of the Spanish version of the Maths Thesaurus Project, which is a thesaurus of school and undergraduate mathematics across different languages. Jose has an extensive background on the evaluation of comparative studies as well as on the design of methodological instruments for cross-cultural studies. In his research project he has developed a valid instrument to evaluated student mathematics-related beliefs in Mexico, Spain, Slovakia, Ireland, England, and Cyprus (Diego-Mantecón, 2013). Nowadays, Jose collaborates on TIMSS. He was the Spanish representative on a meeting of the project in Amsterdam (2012) for designing the mathematics items for TIMSS 2015. Jose led two European projects in the Spanish context: KIKS (Erasmus+) and STEMforYouth (Horizon2020). He is currently coordinating the STEAMTeach project (Erasmus+), and leading the Mathematics EduLarp project (Erasmus+) in Spain. Apart from the above, Jose Diego works in several national projects in Spain which aim to reach education. Email: diegojm@unican.es Phone number: (+0034) 942 20 14 38.
Teresa Fernández Blanco (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Dr. Teresa F. Blanco is professor at University of Santiago de Compostela. She holds a Bachelor Degree in pure Mathematics, and a Master Degree in Education. She also holds two PhDs: one in Numerical Methods in Partial Differential Equations and a second one in Didactic of Experimental Sciences. She is a known researcher in geometry and modelling, having supervised several PhD thesis in this area of research integrating STEAM. She is coordinating the area of Didactics of Mathematics and the Open STEAM Group. She is member of Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training Commission at the University of Santiago of Compostela. She is also member a of the SEIEM (Sociedad Española de Investigación en Educación Matemática) and she coordinated the SEIEM Scientific Committee. Apart from the above, Teresa is leading the Spanish National project EAMARE-STEAM, focused on Teaching and Learning of Mathematics through STEAM activities. She is also part of the Mathematics EduLarp project (Erasmus+). She has participated in two European projects related to STEAM education: STEMforYouth (Horizon2020) and KIKS (Erasmus+).
Rosa García-Ruiz (University of Cantabria)
Dr. Rosa García-Ruiz is professor at the Department of Education at the Universidad de Cantabria. Her research stands out at national and international level, with a large number of publications on the highest quality indicators. Her research lines are mainly related to the development of media competence and the innovative teaching-larning methods. Rosa has been involved in several national and international projects aligned to her research interest, as for example, STEMforYouth (Horizon2020), Mathematics Edularp (Erasmus+), STEAMTeach (Erasmus+) and Youtubers e instagrammers: la competencia mediatica en los prosumidores emergentes (Spanish national project).
Carla M. A. Pinto (School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto)
Dr. Carla M.A. Pinto is a Coordinating Professor at School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP). Her research interests include the study of epidemiological models and Agile/Active-Learning Methodologies for Teaching Mathematics in Higher Education. She is a certified and licensed eduScrum representative in Portugal, and contact person of SEFI-Mathematics Working Group in Portugal. She is also the coordinator of the Group in Mathematics for Engineering Education for the Portuguese Society in Engineering Education. She is the co-founder of Agile in Education Europe. She was/is Coordinator of Erasmus+ Projects, namely DrIVE-MATH and MATH-DIGGER. She was/is researcher of other I&D projects. She has published more than 150 papers in international journals and peer-reviewed conferences. Her h-index is 20 and i-index is 43. She was the subdirector of the Department of Mathematics of the School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, from June 2012, until November 2020.
Martha-Ivón Cárdenas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Dr. Martha-Ivón Cárdenas received her Mathematics degree from the University of Havana (Cuba) at the School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences. She completed her Master’s and Doctoral studies in Artificial Intelligence at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Spain). Currently, she is a member of the Department of Computer Sciences at UPC and teachs at Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB), UPC. Her research lines are focused on pattern recognition, computational intelligence and knowledge discovery. She is also professor at the Department of Education of Generalitat de Catalunya, teaching maths, robotics, computer sciences and technology. Member of the Catalan Society of Mathematics (SCM) and the Catalan Association of GeoGebra (ACG) she is highly motivated by STEAM education. She is also collaborating in the European project STEAMTeach (Erasmus+).
Ignacio Hernández (University of Cantabria)
Dr. Ignacio Hernández (IH) studied and received his PhD in Physics at the University of Cantabria (Spain) in 2006, in the field of materials at high pressure. After a short teaching and research period as a PDRA at the University of Cantabria moved to Queen Mary University of London (UK) with a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellowship. He returned to U. of Cantabria as a Marie Curie CIG Fellow in 2012 and got appointed as a lecturer in 2015. His research is focused in optical molecular systems and high pressure systems with sizes at the nanoscale, and has published more than 50 papers and one patent, been the PI of three research grants and co-directed three PhD theses. He currently teaches several Physics and Materials-oriented modules in the Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, and Physics and Chemistry Teaching in the Primary School (Didáctica del Medio Natural I), in Faculty of Education at the University of Cantabria. IH has participated in a number of outreach activities, including demonstrations for Secondary School students, and guided visits to laboratories, being the departmental responsible for these activities and a member of the Aula de la Ciencia Commitee at the University of Cantabria. IH is currently collaborating in a research innovation project focused on pupil-teacher interaction and is the responsible person for mobility and exchange programmes (including Erasmus) in Physics at his home university.
Zaira Ortiz-Laso (University of Cantabria)
Zaira Ortiz-Laso received her Mathematics degree from the University of Cantabria in 2016. One year later, she graduated from her Master in Teacher Training in Secondary Education in the same university, specializing in Mathematics. Nowadays, she is a pHD student at the University of Cantabria. Her research lines include mainly STE(A)M education and mathematics teacher training. Zaira has participated in international project aiming to promote STEAM education in high schools, such as, STEMforYouth (Horizon2020), Mathematics Edularp (Erasmus+) and STEAMTeach (Erasmus+).
