for STEM Education Section of Education Sciences (MDPI, Switzerland,), editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature), and Sensors (MDPI, Switzerland). He is also a Chartered Engineer of the Engineering Council (UK), a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the IET, and a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Nanda Gunawardhana works as the Director of Research and International Affairs at Sri Lanka Technological Campus, Sri Lanka. Prior to that, he worked as the Director of the International Research Centre at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He received a bachelor's degree specializing in Chemistry from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and a PhD from Baylor University in the US. He has worked as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow at Saga University, Japan, and at the Fukuoka Industry and Science Foundation, Japan.
He has authored over 100 peer‐reviewed technical articles and a book chapter, and also holds a patent. He was named the best young scientist in Sri Lanka by the National Science Foundation, and by the Third World Academy of Science, Italy in 2015. In addition, he is a recipient of Presidential awards for his scientific publications. He has received many research and capacity‐building grants from the European Union, Pakistan, Japan, and Sri Lanka. Since 2012, he has worked as the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Chemistry (The Canadian Center of Science and Education).
Felicity Healey‐Benson, founder of EmergentThinkers.com and co‐founder, with Professor David A. Kirby, of the Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society, is an academic, Entrepreneurial Learning Champion, and doctoral candidate at the University of Wales Trinity St. David. Her phenomenological research supporting the facilitation of higher‐order thinking focuses on future‐proofing educator professional development. She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Swansea University. Passionate about sustainability, she is committed to promoting entrepreneurship, and specifically a harmonious approach, as key to the transformation of our current learning ecosystem, promoting new literacies and applied creativity and innovation in support of the United Nations' Sustainability Development Goals.
D. Hoornweg, PhD, PEng, is Associate Professor, Associate Dean, and Richard Marceau Chair at Ontario Tech University. For almost 20 years Dan was with the World Bank, including as Lead Advisor overseeing Sustainable Cities and Climate Change programs. He was the Chief Safety and Risk Officer for the Province of Ontario 2012–2020 (Technical Standards and Safety Authority, TSSA). His academic background includes degrees in Earth Sciences, a master's in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Civil (Sustainability) Engineering (University of Toronto, 2015). He researches energy and material flows of cities and urban systems. He is a Fellow with Canada's Transition Accelerator, the Global Cities Institute at University of Toronto, and Futures Cities at Evergreen Brickworks.
Ján Horák is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. He received his PhD in landscaping in 2009. His main teaching area is climatology and his research is focused on studying the application of biochar to soil on greenhouse gas emissions, the physical and chemical properties of soil, and crop yields. He has over 30 peer‐reviewed publications in impactful journals related to his research topics, and has coordinated and participated in several national and international educational and scientific projects.
Tatiana Kaletová is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia. She is a teacher of Hydraulics, Forest Amelioration, and Agricultural Water Management, and the practical training Monitoring of Environment. Her research focuses on the impact of land use on water quality and quantity in the landscape, especially the agricultural landscapre. She is an author and co‐author of several textbooks and scientific articles and cooperates closely with teachers and researchers from Europe and Uzbekistan. She coordinates and participates in several national and international educational and scientific projects.
Hesam Kamalipour is Co‐Director of the MA Urban Design Programme and the Co‐Founding Director of the Public Space Observatory Research Centre at Cardiff University, UK. His research has focused on the challenge of understanding the dynamics of informal urbanism and the ways in which different forms of informality work in a global context. He has previously served as Research Fellow at Monash University, Research Assistant and Guest Lecturer in Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, and Doctoral Academy Member at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute. He holds a PhD in Urban Design from the University of Melbourne.
David A. Kirby, professor, is a pioneer of entrepreneurship education in the UK and internationally and holder of The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion. At the University of Durham (1988–1996), where he held the UK's first Chair in Entrepreneurship, and at the University of Surrey (2000–2017) he taught entrepreneurship to both Business and Engineering students, while at the British University in Egypt (2007–2017) he introduced entrepreneurship not only to the university, but to the country. With Felicity Healey‐Benson he co‐founded, in Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020, The Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society based on his research with Dr. Iman El‐Kaffass. He is an Honorary Professor of Almaty Management University and the University of Wales Trinity St. David, and a member of the Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities.
Lelia Kiš‐Glavaš has full Professor tenure at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department for Inclusive Education and Rehabilitation. She is coordinator for students with disabilities at the faculty and a member of the scientific board. From 2004 to 2009 she was Vice Dean for Science and from 2009 to 2011 she was international cooperation leader. From 2012 to 2014 she was a director of study programs Rehabilitation and Educational Rehabilitation. At the University of Zagreb (2007–2016), she was chair of the committee for students with disabilities and was a leader of Tempus project “Education for Equal Opportunities at Croatian Universities – EduQuality.” She is a member of number of professional non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) and committees and she has participated in creating several legal drafts. She is a member of the Croatian National Board for the improvement the social dimension of higher education and of the Government of the Republic of Croatia Committee for persons with disabilities.
Rebecca Laycock Pedersen is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Coordinator for Sustainability in Education at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden. Her interests lie in using sustainability education to shape a better future, especially through the medium of food and food‐growing. Her doctoral research focused on understanding how to manage the impacts of students' transience in student‐led university food gardens, focusing on the National Union of Students‐funded program, “Student Eats.” She has also worked with embedding sustainability across disciplinary curricula and in the student experience at an institutional level at both Keele University, UK, and BTH. She has a Postgraduate Certification in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and, in 2017, she won an Excellence Award in Teaching and Learning for her participatory, inclusive, and student‐centered approach to teaching.
Beatriz Ledesma Cano is a researcher at the Applied Physics Department of the University of Extremadura (Spain). Skilled in the use of biomass, hydrocarbonization, gasification, adsorption, and energy, she has published papers, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. Her research work is complemented by teaching tasks through the direction of final degree projects, seminars or laboratory practices, participation in teaching innovation groups, and numerous teacher training courses. She has interests in ethical competencies, project‐based learning, development cooperation, and education for sustainable development, and has participated in the publication of book chapters related to these topics.
Azza Malik is a Research Associate and an analyst. She works on interdisciplinary research in different fields, but mostly on business and marketing related themes. She is
