Dr R. Subramaniam is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has previously held the administrative appointments of Associate Dean (Educational Research) and Associate Dean (Graduate Academic Programs) at the university. Dr Subramaniam’s principal research interests are in the areas of physics education, chemistry education, primary science education, informal science education, and science communication. Publications number over 100, and this comprises research papers in peer-reviewed international journals (including Nature, Science, International Journal of Science Education, and Journal of Research in Science Teaching), peer-reviewed chapters in edited books of international publishers, books published by international publishers, and guest-edited issues of international journals. He has so far graduated 15 Master’s and PhD students in various areas in science education. His most recent keynote addresses were presented at international conferences in Tennessee (USA), Dalian (China), Busan (Korea), Lombok (Indonesia) and Beijing (China).

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