Fundamental Physics and Physics Education Research (PDF)

B.G. Sidharth is a physicist best known for his pioneering work on dark energy (an accelerating universe) and two-dimensional material. Aside from these aspects, his work has chiefly focused on high-energy physics. He has a number of books to his credit, and over 200 papers in leading physics journals. He is Director of the B.M. Birla Science Centre in Hyderabad, India.



Jesús Carnicer Murillo is an associated professor at the Department of Statistics, Mathematics, and Computer Science, Miguel Hernández University of Elche; Pedagogic Director of the Didactic, Interactive, and Science Museum of Orihuela (MUDIC-VBS-CV); and a secondary school teacher for physics and chemistry. His research mainly focuses on science education and in particular science teacher education, producing contributions at both the international and the popular level.



Marisa Michelini is a full professor of physics education at Udine University, Italy, where she is Rector Delegate for Didactic Innovation and heads the Physics Education Research Unit (URDF). She is President of the International Physics Education Research Group (GIREP), and a committee member of the Multimedia Physics Teaching and Learning (MPTL) and Physics Education Divisions of the European Physics Society (EPS-PED). She is also Director of the Italian University Consortium on Education and Guidance (GEO) and an honorary member of the Italian Association for Physics Teaching (AIF). She has carried out five EU, ten national, and eight regional projects on physics education and teacher education and has authored more than 600 publications in books and peer-reviewed journals.



Carmen Perea holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Valencia and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Alicante. She is currently a professor at the Department of Statistics, Mathematics, and Computer Science at Miguel Hernández University of Elche and Director-Manager of the Didactic, Interactive,