Academic committee

Xana Sá Pinto, University of Aveiro,Portugal
Xana Sá-Pinto is an Assistant Researcher at the Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF) of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her research focuses on community based approaches for promoting education for sustainability and scientific literacy.

Michal Zion, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Prof. Michal Zion is a full professor at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Her research focuses on: Inquiry-based learning and teaching, sustainability education, 21st century skills in biology education

Gregor Torkar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Gregor Torkar is a full professor of biology education at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Education, Slovenia. His field of research is biology and environmental education in preschool, primary, secondary and tertiary education. He is a chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Teacher Education for Sustainable Development.

Daniel Olsson, Karlstad University, Sweden
Daniel Olsson is a senior lecturer in biology education at Karlstad University in Sweden. ). His research focusses mainly on teaching and learning in Environmental and Sustainability Education, with a special focus on measurement and evaluation issues related to students’ action competence for sustainability .
Olivier Morin, University of Lyon, France

Michal Haskel-Ittah, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Michal Haskel-Ittah is a senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research focuses on causal understanding and mechanistic reasoning in the context of teaching and learning biology.

Jelle Boeve-de Pauw, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jelle Boeve-de Pauw is an associate professor of biology education at the Freudenthal Institute (Utrecht University, the Netherlands). His research focusses mainly on teaching and learning in Education for Sustainable Development, specifically on issues of measurement and evaluation.
Past Comittee Members
Dr. Orit Ben Zvi Assaraf, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Dr. Konstantinos Korfiatis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Dr Marida Ergazaki, University of Patras, Greece
Dr Niklas Gericke, Karlstad University, Sweden
Dr Marcus Grace, Southampton University, UK
Dr Marie-Christine Knippels, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Dr Blanca Puig, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Dr Maria José Gil Quílez, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Dr Grégoire Molinatti, University Montpellier II, France
Dr Tali Tal, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Dr Jörg Zabel, Leipzig University, Germany