Program

Plenary speakers:

Markus Hohenwarter

Markus Hohenwarter studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Salzburg in Austria. As part of his master's thesis he designed and implemented the dynamic mathematics software GeoGebra. After his PhD in mathematics education he spent three years at universities in Florida where he was working in projects with middle and high school teachers. In 2010, he joined Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria where he is now leading the department of mathematics education. In 2013, he received an honorary doctorate in Argentina for his work on GeoGebra.

Bjarnheiður (Bea) Kristinsdóttir

Bjarnheiður (Bea) Kristinsdóttir finished her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Iceland in 2006, a masters degree in applied mathematics at the Technical University of Freiberg in Germany in 2008, and a doctoral degree in mathematics education at the University of Iceland in 2021. Bea received her mathematics teaching licence for Icelandic upper secondary schools in 2010, has 8 years experience of teaching mathematics at the upper secondary school level and 2 years experience of teaching mathematics and mathematics education at the university level. Since 2016, Bea has worked as a doctoral researcher in mathematics education at the University of Iceland and collaborated with the GeoGebra Institute and Linz School of Education at the Johannes Kepler University in Austria. She now works as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Iceland School of Education and participates in the European collaboration project <colette/> on behalf of the Johannes Kepler University.

Thomas Vikberg

Thomas Vikberg works as a product owner with digital development at the Finnish Matriculation Examination Board. The exams in the Matriculation Examination are the only national tests in the Finnish educational system and are taken at the end of general upper secondary education. Since 2019, all the 42 different exams in the Matriculation Examination have been taken digitally in the Abitti exam environment. Abitti contains a variety of programs for the candidates to work with, including various calculators

Matti Lassas

Matti Lassas works as a professor of applied mathematics in University of Helsinki and an academy professor of Academy of Finland. He studies inverse problems, geometry and machine learning.