Keynote Speakers

A/Prof Joanne Ngeow 饶润仪,  BMedSci, MBBS, FRCP, MPH, PhD is Senior Consultant, Division of Medical Oncology at the National Cancer Centre Singapore and Associate Professor (Genomic Medicine) with tenure at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. 

Dr Ngeow heads the Cancer Genetics Service at the National Cancer Centre Singapore with an academic clinical interest in hereditary cancer syndromes and translational clinical cancer genetics. 

She led the introduction of universal mismatch deficiency testing for colon and endometrial cancer across SingHealth and is leading the National Precision Medicine Clinical Implementation Pilot for Hereditary Cancer in Singapore. 

Dr Ngeow is funded by the National Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Award and Ministry of Health to explore how gene-environmental interactions predisposes to cancer initiation and the equitable implementation of genomics into routine clinical care in Asia. 

She is one of the Principal Investigators of the Health for Life in Singapore Study (HELIOS), a state-of-the-art multi-ethnic population cohort study funded to understand chronic disease prevention. She is the founding chair of Inherited Cancers Network Asia (ICAN-Asia), a clinical and translational network aimed at improving access to genomic testing for hereditary cancers in Asia. 

She is the current elected chair of International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumors (InSiGHT).  

Dr Ngeow is the founding Director of the Cancer Genomic Medicine Fellowship Program, a post graduate hands-on training program for clinicians and basic scientists on the principles and practice of genomic and precision medicine implementation. She enjoys mentoring clinician scientists. Her service as council member for College of Clinician Scientist, Academy of Medicine Singapore (AMS) and Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) has led to important changes for younger clinicians.  

She is passionate about patient advocacy and started support groups for Lynch syndrome, FAP, NF, HBOC and other genetic conditions with patient forums and meetings held annually.

Dr. Küchemann completed his diploma in physics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, in 2010. He also did his PhD Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, on thermodynamic and kinetic properties of metallic glasses during ultrafast heating in 2014. 

Afterwards, he joined the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, as a Research Scholar for two years. 

In 2017, he switched from solid-state physics to physics education research and worked as a postdoc at the Physics Education Research group at TU Kaiserslautern, where he was appointed Junior Research Group Leader in 2021. 

In 2022, he took over the junior research group leadership for AI in physics education at the Chair of Physics Education at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany, where he was appointed Research Group Leader in 2023.

He has published more than 100 articles in the field of AI in Science Education, he is highly cited, and he leads several projects on AI-based personalization in STEM education. 

He is also founder and shareholder of Ease of Mind GmbH, which is a spin-off from his group and focuses on developing AI-based tools for Education. 

Jonathan Osborne is the Kamalachari Professor of Science Education, Emeritus at the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University. 

After teaching high school physics in Inner London for 9 years, he then moved to teacher training and research at King’s College. He completed his PhD in 1995. He was co-author of the report Beyond 2000: Science Education for the Future in 1998; President of the US National Association for Research in Science Teaching (2006-7) and a member of the US National Academies Panel that produced the Framework for K-12 Science Education. 

In 2018, he was awarded the National Association for Science Education award for Distinguished Contribution to Science Education.  Currently, he chairs the expert group for the framework for the science assessments conducted by the OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2015 and 2025. Most recently he was the lead author of report Science Education in an Age of Misinformation. 

His research interests are in the role of argumentation in science, improving the teaching of literacy in science and addressing the issue of misinformation in science. 

Dr. Winston Chow is the Co-Chair of Working Group II of the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate, where he co-leads the development of Working Group II's contribution (on climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability) to the IPCC 7th Assessment Cycle reports, including a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.

He is also a Professor of Urban Climate and Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at Singapore Management University's (SMU) College of Integrative Studies (CIS), where he leads the urban infrastructure research pillar at SMU's Urban Institute. His research focuses on urban climate change risk, vulnerability, and heat island adaptation. 

Dr. Chow is the Co-Lead Principal Investigator for the Cooling Singapore initiative, which addresses urban heat challenges. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University, and Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Geography from the National University of Singapore.