J. Bernardino Lopes holds a PhD and Aggregation in Physics Education. Associate Professor of UTAD (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro). Researcher of Research Centre CIDTFF - Research Centre “Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers and coordinator of a research lab of this centre. Former President of Scientific Council, Pedagogical Council and Head of Department at UTAD. Currently is Director of doctoral program: “Science and Technology Education Research” at UTAD. Invited Editor of scientific journals and referee in JCR journals. Consultant in a professional development center. Author/editor of books (international edition) and papers in international scientific journals with peer review. Present research interests include Sciences and Technological Education Research, in particular: i) Curriculum design and evaluation of teaching; ii) Teacher mediation of student learning; iii) Teaching practices (questions, tasks, inquiry, epistemic practices, decisions, engagement, assessment, CTS contexts, interactions, practical work); iv) Conceptual learning; v) Tools for data collection in classroom; vi) computer simulation; vii) tools (beneficial and epistemic) to enhance C&T learning viii) Teacher education and Teacher professional development; ix) Philosophy of Science.