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Prof. Dr. Mandy Schiefner-Rohs is a university professor for general education with a focus on school education at the TU Kaiserslautern. Her research focuses on the interface of media and (high) school pedagogical issues with a focus on the transformation of schools and universities as well as pedagogical professionalism in a culture of digitality.

She is a reviewer for various (inter)national journals (including Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, Research in Learning Technology, Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, Die Deutsche Schule, Zeitschrift für Bildungsforschung, Zeitschrift für Medienpädagogik) as well as a reviewer for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Rectors' Conference of the Swiss Universities, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, the Volkswagen Foundation, the German National Academic Foundation and the DAAD, among others.

Gabriela Molinar studied electrical engineering and information technology in Venezuela. She received her doctorate in 2020 from the Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and now works in the energy sector at the transmission system operator TenneT TSO GmbH in Bayreuth.

She received the 2022 Ecology Award of the Viktor & Sigrid Dulger Foundation for her work "Machine Learning Tool for Transmission Capacity Forecasting of Overhead Lines based on Distributed Weather Data", which makes an important contribution to power load forecasting using artificial intelligence as an optimisation method for grid operation and to support the energy transition in Germany.

Professor Kristina Kögler heads the Department of Vocational, Business and Technical Education at the University of Stuttgart. Her research focuses on the dynamics and conditioning factors of vocational learning and experience processes and their outcomes, as well as quality issues in virtual and hybrid learning settings. Kristina Kögler is on the board of the Vocational and Business Education Section of the German Society for Educational Science and editor of the series Empirische Berufsbildungsforschung published by Steiner Verlag.

Prof. Dirk Ifenthaler holds the Chair of Business Education - Technology-Based Instructional Design at the University of Mannheim and the UNESCO Deputy Chair on Data Science in Higher Education Learning and Teaching at Curtin University, Australia. His research focus combines issues of teaching-learning research, educational technology, data analytics and organisational learning.

Previous academic positions include Professor and Director of the Centre for Centre for Research in Digital Learning at Deakin University, Australia, Manager of Applied Research and Learning Analytics at Open Universities Australia and Professor of Applied Teaching and Learning Research at the University of Potsdam. Professor Ifenthaler was a 2012 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, at the University of Oklahoma, USA.