Cristina A. Huertas-Abril belongs to the Dpt. English and German Studies of the University of Córdoba, Spain. She is an interdisciplinary researcher working mainly within Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, IC Studies and Translation Studies. She has participated in several interdisciplinary teaching innovation projects, and teaches at Master's level at UCO, UCA and UIMP. Moreover, she has taught both in formal and non-formal contents, and has directed and taught several specialization courses on Bilingual Education, Translation Studies and Second Language Acquisition.
Elvira Fernández-Ahumada. Graduated as engineer in the University of Cordoba in 2004, she obtained her PhD at the same university in 2008, awarded with the extraordinary PhD prize in the field of Engineering and Technology. Her main line of research has had a clear direction towards specialization in the mathematical treatment of data, mainly with quantitative approaches and multivariate analysis, as reflected in her most important publications. After several international experiences with pre-doctoral stays and post-doctoral contracts in prestigious research centres, she joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cordoba, in 2016, as a doctoral assistant professor, position she currently holds. In recent years, she have broadened the focus of her research, addressing research on mathematics education. In this field, her main research lines deal with mathematical competence of pre-service teachers, problem solving and modelling in mathematics teaching; developing number sense in the first years of learning; studying mathematics education in bilingual contexts and using immersive virtual worlds for educational purposes.
Natividad Adamuz-Povedano graduated in Physics from the University of Córdoba (2009) and obtained her PhD in Education with international mention in the University of Córdoba in 2016. The first stage of her research career has been focused on the analysis of the scientific production of Mathematical Education in its various channels of dissemination, mainly through articles, doctoral theses and books. This first stage culminated in her doctoral thesis. After the presentation of her doctoral thesis, her research career is focused on lines of work more typical of Mathematical Education, specifically on the development of number sense and the use of manipulative materials in the first years of learning, of which two contributions are presented in book form. In the line of work Ethnomathematics, which covers the social and cultural dimension of mathematics, in the development of computational thinking through the use of Scratch and, finally, in the line of embodiment cognition, the result of her research stays at the Educational and Social Research Institute of Manchester Metropolitan University. The result of this research career is 25 articles, 5 books, 24 book chapters and 63 contributions to conferences, 7 of them as guest lectures.