Martin Mulder (1951) is Emeritus Professor of Education and past chair of the Department of Education and Competence Studies of Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Most of his recent research is in the field of competence-based vocational, professional and higher education, training and development. He edited ‘Competence-Based Vocational and Professional Education. Bridging the Worlds of Work and Education’ (2017, Cham, Switzerland: Springer), and co-edited the Handbook of Vocational Education and Training (2019, Cham, Switzerland: Springer). He (co)authored and edited numerous books and articles in peer-reviewed scientific research journals in the field of vocational education, higher education, teacher education, science and engineering education, technology-enhanced learning, management, entrepreneurship and mainstream educational research. The work of Mulder has been widely acknowledged. He received an Outstanding Reviewer Award of the Journal of Workplace Learning twice (2017 and 2018), the European Researcher of Vocational Education and Training Award by the European Commission (2016), and is founder and honorary member (since 2011) of the Vocational Education and Training Research Network (VETNET) of the European Educational Research Association . Furthermore, he has several Awards more from Dutch, American, Asian, and other European organizations. Martin Mulder has served, and still serves, on a number of editorial committees of international journals, and held various leadership positions in national, European, American and World educational research associations. He has presented his work widely in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Currently he was chair of the Academic Board of NCOI University of Applied Sciences, and is owner-director of MM Consultancy for Education and Training.
