Prof. Dr. Hasan Said Tortop was born and raised in İzmir, Türkiye. He graduated from the Department of Science Education at Manisa Celal Bayar University in 1998. In the same year, he began his career as a science teacher under the Ministry of National Education (MoNE). He completed his master's degree in Science Education at Celal Bayar University in 2001. In 2010, he earned his Ph.D. in Physics (Physics Education) from Süleyman Demirel University. During the last three years of his teaching career (2008–2011), he worked at a Science and Art Center for gifted students. In 2011, he was appointed to the Faculty of Education at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University (BEU). There, he founded the Special Education Research and Application Center for Gifted Children (2013), developed the Education Program for Gifted Bridge with University (EPGBU, 2013–2015), and established the Journal for the Education of Gifted Research (JGER), serving as its editor. He has led a TÜBİTAK project related to gifted students (with 5 coordinators and 3 expert trainers). He became an associate professor in Science Education in 2014. He was appointed to the Department of Special Education at Istanbul Aydın University in 2017, and later to the Department of Child Development at Istanbul Esenyurt University in 2020. To date, he has supervised 30 theses. He earned a second bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Anadolu University Open Education Faculty in 2020. In October 2023, he completed his second Ph.D. in Disability Studies (Special Education) at Trakya University. He has published 19 books and over 100 national and international articles. He currently serves as executive editor of two academic journals related to gifted education (Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists and Journal of Gifted Education and Creativity) and teaches as a visiting scholar at various universities. His areas of interest include science education, gifted education, talent development, and special education.  E-mail: hasansaidfen@gmail.com ORCID: 0000-0002-0899-4033 Web: https://hasansaidtortop.com GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MqAQWXsAAAAJ&hl=tr

Academiaedu: https://independent.academia.edu/HTORTOP ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hasan-Tortop-2 

I graduated from the Department of Physical Education and Sports Teaching at Cumhuriyet University in 2014 and began my teaching career in Konya in the same year.

Between 2015 and 2018, I completed my master’s degree. During this period, I worked as a weightlifting coach.

In 2018, I was appointed to Kayseri. In the same year, I became a member of the Education Board of the Turkish Weightlifting Federation, where I served as an instructor in training programs for coaches and athletes.

I completed my doctoral studies, which I began in 2018 at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, in 2022. My academic work focuses on physical education, traditional games, values education, sports culture, and fair play.

Since 2021, I have been continuing my teaching career in Aksaray. Since 2023, I have been serving as the coordinator of the project “Living My Values through Traditional Games,” which aims to support children’s physical and social development.

Hasan Tinmaz completed his undergraduate studies at Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkiye) in the Faculty of Education, Computer Education Department in 2001, he graduated from the same university's Graduate Program in Curriculum and Instruction in 2004. Having completed his doctoral studies with his thesis on the uses, gratification and integration of social media in Middle East Technical University, Computer Education and Instructional Technologies program, he still works as an Assist. Professor in AI & Big Data department of Endicott College of International Studies, Woosong University (Daejeon, South Korea). His research areas are social media, educational technology, curriculum and instruction design, technology management, psychological and sociological issues in technology, technology planning, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse. 

Research interests

STEM Integration; Teacher Professional Development; Teacher Induction

ERDOĞAN completed her master's degree in Mathematics Education at Eskişehir Osmangazi University in 2007, and her doctorate degree in Mathematics Education at Marmara University in 2013. Since 2017, Dr. Erdoğan has been working as a faculty member at Fırat University, Faculty of Education, Mathematics Education Department. Her scientific and research interests include collaborative learning, metacognition, inclusive mathematics education, higher-order thinking skills, problem-solving, and problem-posing. 

Born in Edirne in 1983, he completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in Edirne before beginning his higher education at Trakya University Faculty of Education in 2000. After completing his undergraduate studies in 2004, Ilgaz began his master's studies that same year and was accepted into the doctoral program in 2008. Following the completion of his doctorate, he began working as an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Education, Trakya University, in 2012. He was promoted to associate professor in 2020. Between 2019 and 2024, he served as the Director of the Trakya University Institute of Roman Language and Culture Studies. Currently, he has held the position of Deputy Head of Department in the Department of Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Education, Trakya University, since 2014, and the position of Head of the Division of Curriculum and Instruction since 2018. Ilgaz's academic work primarily focuses on the development and evaluation of educational programs, teacher training, the analysis of large-scale education datasets (PISA, ICILS, ICCS, etc.), social-emotional learning, digital literacy, and the impact of educational policies on curricula. His research particularly emphasises the adaptation of educational programs to different contexts, the effects of teacher characteristics on student achievement, and the contributions of international educational research to educational policies.

Associate Professor PhD, Mojca Kukanja Gabrijelčič, Director of Center of Giftedness and Creativity, University of Primorska, Faculty of Education. In the field of research, she is mainly concerned with the development of didactics; studies the design of curricula and teaching materials for the social sciences and alternative didactic strategies for teaching in higher education. In addition to didactics, her longterm research is directed towards gifted and talented students, finding (identifying) gifted students in primary school, in history classes and discovering gifted children in preschool, developing didactic strategies for working with the gifted and talent children. Her important contribution in the field of gifted education is mainly in the measurement tool, as she was the first in Slovenia to create an assessment scale for discovering gifted students in history and also for gifted preschoolers. ORCID: 0000-0003-0682-613X
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mojca-Kukanja-Gabrijelcic

Albert Ziegler, PhD, is Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and Research on Excellence at the University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany. He is the Founding Director of the Statewide Counseling and Research Center for the Gifted. He has published approximately 400 books, chapters and articles in the fields of talent development and educational psychology. He developed the Actiotope Model of Giftedness, which promotes a systemic conception of giftedness. In his research, his main interests are learning resources and effective learning environments, self-regulated learning, mentoring, and gifted identification. Presently, he serves as the Vice President of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA), and as Chairman of the European Talent Support Network (ETSN). In 2017, he was appointed Director of the World Giftedness Center in Dubai.