邱美虹教授是國立臺灣師範大學科學教育研究所名譽教授。她擁有國立臺灣師範大學化學系學士、哈佛大學教育碩士和博士(1990)，曾任國立臺灣師範大學科學教育研究所所長與教育部科學教育指導委員會委員。邱教授的研究興趣與專長在科學教育、科學概念建構與改變、科學建模教學、科學課程及另類評量。近年來的研究觸角延伸到以人臉辨識系統探討學生面對認知衝突的科學現象時臉部表情的變化與學習的關係、利用新興科技之擴增實境和虛擬實境探討科學學習之成效，以及利用人工智慧進行科學教科書分析之相關研究。邱教授已發表上百篇國內外學術期刊、編輯四本英文專書(Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie's Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Sense in 2012; Chemical Education and Sustainability in the Global Age published by Springer in 2013, Science Education Research and Practice in Taiwan: Challenges and Opportunities by Springer in 2016<該書為Springer出版之教育類該年排名第一的暢銷書>; Science Education Research and Practice in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities by Springer in 2016.)和兩本中文專書(科學創意實驗、臺灣科學教育研究與實踐: 挑戰與機會)，並曾任或現任科學教育與化學教育之學術期刊之主編、副主編和編輯委員，並擁有三個科技在科學教育上的應用專利。邱教授曾任中華民國科學教育學會理事長和現任監事主席、國際純粹與應用化學聯盟(International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry，IUPAC)化學教育委員會(Committee on Chemistry Education)主席(2012-2015)、現任IUPAC 最高執行委員會常務委員(Executive Committee)(2016-2019, 2020-2023)。邱教授於2016-2017 年獲選擔任美國科學教育學會 (National Association for Research in Science Teaching, NARST) 理事長，為非英語系國家學者擔任該學會理事長的第一人。邱教授曾于2009年獲得亞洲化學會(Federation of Asian Chemical Societies, FACS)化學教育傑出貢獻獎、2016年獲得東亞科學教育學會(Eastern-Asian Science Education Association, EASE)傑出貢獻獎、2021年獲得IUPAC化學或化工傑出女性獎(Distinguished Woman in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering)、2024年獲得IUPAC 化學教育貢獻獎以及2026年獲得美國科學教學學會(National Association for Research in Science Teaching, NARST)終身成就貢獻獎。邱教授共指導108位碩博士生畢業，其中獲得博士學位者21位，碩士學位者87位。同時擁有三項科技與評量應用在科學教育的專利。

Mei-Hung Chiu is a Professor Emerita of the Graduate Institute of Science Education of the National Taiwan Normal University. Her research areas include (1) eliciting students’ conceptional construction and conceptual change in science education, (2) promoting model-based and modeling-based instruction and developing students’ modeling competence in science education, (3) investigating the effectiveness of the use of counter-intuitive scenarios via facial recognition system and exploring whether facial microexpression state changes can be used to identify optimal moments of conceptual change in science learning, and (4) applying augmented reality for learning structures of organic compounds.

She received the Distinguished Contribution to Chemical Education Award from the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS) in 2009, the Distinguished Contribution to Science Education Award from the Eastern-Asian Science Education Association (EASE) in 2016, the Distinguished Woman in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering from International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in 2021, the Distinguished Contribution to Chemistry Education, Committee on Chemistry Education, IUPAC in 2024, and the Distinguished Contribution to Science Education Through Research from National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST, USA) in 2026.

She served as the President of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) based in the USA from 2016- 2017, the chair of the Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE, 2012-15), a member of the Bureau and the Executive Committee (2016-2019, 2020-2023), and a member of the Governing Board of the International Science Council (2022-2024).

Finally, Dr. Chiu has supervised 108 advisees to earn their advanced degrees (21 in Ph.D. and 87 in M.S.) in science education. She also has three patents on the design of a hierarchical assessment items system and method, an assessment system, and the method of the use of facial expression recognition technique.