Graduating around the globe
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Patricia Alexander is a Distinguished University Professor, the Jean
Mullan Professor of Literacy, and Distinguished Scholar Teacher in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland. Her research interests are in the areas of learning, text comprehension, expertise development, and reasoning. She is the former President of Division 15 (Educational Psychology) for the American Psychological Association, past Vice President for Division C (Learning and Instruction) for the American Educational Research Association, Fellow of APA, AERA, and the Society for Text and Discourse, and a member of the National Academy of Education. She is the author of more than 300 publications, many co-written with current and former doctoral students. Over the course of her academic career, she has graduated upwards of 50 doctoral students, with eight doctoral students currently in her lab, The Disciplined Reading and Learning Research Laboratory.
Teresa Bajo is a full professor in the Department of Experimental Psy-
chology at the University of Granada. She is head of the Memory and Language research group. Her research interests include memory retrieval in young and older adults, and language processing and control in bilinguals and monolinguals. Some of her recent publications have appeared in Cognition, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. She has supervised 29 doctoral theses and published more than 160 papers. She has been Chair of the Doctoral School for Health Sciences and of the International School for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Granada.
Nicolas Balacheff
is an emeritus senior scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He contributed to research on teaching and learning mathematical proofs, as well as bridging AI research and mathematics education research, with a focus on student modelling. He started the latter as a member of the Cabri-géomètre project, which paved the way for research in dynamic geometry. He chaired several national and international
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