Vanda Santos, PhD in Science and Technology Education Research (2016, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal) is a researcher at the Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and collaborates with the Centre for Informatics and Systems at the University of Coimbra (CISUC), Portugal. Her teaching expertise lies in the area of Didactics of Mathematics, having previously instructed various Mathematics subjects at different Polytechnic Institutes as an assistant, and as an invited professor at the University Timor Lorosa'e of East Timor. Vanda has actively contributed to the development of the WGL platform (http://hilbert.mat.uc.pt/WebGeometryLab/index.php). She has authored 10 books, 21 book chapters, and over 50 articles, with 32 of them indexed in Scopus. In addition to her academic contributions, Vanda supervises 6 PhD students and co-supervises two PhD Student (one completed) and another international PhD student, co-supervised 1 MSc student (completed), supervises 3 MSc students (completed), co-supervised 2 students of a Scientific Initiation Programme, and supervises 5 students of a Scientific Initiation Programme (completed). She has been involved in numerous funding program applications, including National projects, COST, H2020, Erasmus+, and National Canadian funds, in roles ranging from responsible researcher to team member. She is in an Erasmus+ project OpenUS4ALL (Open Universal Steam for All) 2023-1-ES01-KA220-SCH-000166940. Vanda has also served as a consultant for the Erasmus+ project: PUNTE - 2020-1-HU01-KA203-078810 Poly-Universe in Teacher Training Education, and as a Project Peer Reviewer for the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, three times, and also as external expert for the COST Association. Her international engagements include participation in conferences such as the ThEdu programme committee (since 2014), the CADGME 2018 programme committee (Working Groups & Workshops Chair, local chair), and the local programme committee of the international conference, IJCAR (2016). Coordinated the national meeting “Matemática com Vida”, along its six editions, and the two editions of International Conference on Math Education and Technology (ICMET). Vanda has delivered lectures at various international and national conferences. She also serves as a reviewer for the journals Education and Information Technologies and Technology, Knowledge, and Learning, she is a member of the Association for Automated Reasoning and at Portuguese Society of Mathematics Education Research (SPIEM). Vanda's primary research interests include educational technologies, computational geometry, mathematical software, mathematics education, with a special focus on collaborative learning, active learning, and the development of mathematical reasoning.