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has co-chaired various national and international conferences. In her research, Dragana explores knowledge for teaching mathematics, ways in which technology can assist in teaching and learning of mathematics, and epistemologies of Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in relation to teacher and K-12 education. Dragana's research is funded by SSHRC, KNAER, the Fields Institute, and various Canadian government organizations. She has published edited books and books of conference proceedings and multiple book chapters, refereed journal papers, and research and technical reports.



Melanija Mitrovic is a Full Professor at the University of NiS, Serbia, having received her PhD degree at the same university. She works in the field of classical and constructive algebra. Her innovating work within the theory of constructive binary structures with apartness positions her among the pioneers of constructive mathematics in Serbia. She develops interdisciplinary research investigating applications of algebraic structures to problems in engineering space, social sciences and humanities. She is, also, the Head of the Center of Applied Mathematics of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering NiS, CAM- FMEN (since 2019), a member of the Editorial Board of Mathematics in Mind, Springer; a member of the Fields Cognitive Science Network. She holds the status of Permanent Full Professor at the International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (ICMPA-UNESCO Chair), University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic. She has held visiting professor positions at Linköping University and Malardaren University, Sweden; Bar-Ilan University, Israel; TU Wien, Austria; UTAD and University of Minho, Portugal; and Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She is member of the Grant Selection Committee (GSC) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) Commission for Developing Countries (CDC).



Philippa (Pip) Pattison is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne and University of Sydney, having retired in 2021 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education at the University of Sydney. Pip's research is focussed primarily on the development of mathematical and statistical models for social networks and network processes. Following early work on algebraic models for social networks, she developed in collaboration with others a hierarchy of statistical models for social networks that recognise the potential endogeneity of network processes and can reproduce a wide variety of their observed characteristics. She and her colleagues have extended these models to a variety of data structures and forms and have developed methods for estimating models from partial network data resulting from snowball sampling designs. These developments are now being widely applied across a number of social and behavioural science domains. Pip's work has attracted a number of awards, including the University of Melbourne Special Thesis Award in 1983, the Australian Psychological Society Early Career Award in 1988, and the Simmel Award of the International Network for Social Network Analysis in 2002. Pip was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1995 and became an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2015.