After teaching at secondary schools in South Australia and Victoria and appointments at the (then) Secondary Teachers College and Monash University, Gilah took up the position of Professor of Education at La Trobe University in 1994. Recently Gilah was awarded the Felix Klein medal for “more than thirty years of sustained, consistent, and outstanding lifetime achievements in mathematics education research and development”. Gilah is now an Adjunct Professor at Monash University and Professor Emerita at La Trobe University and a very proud grandmother of five wonderful grandchildren: four boys and one girl.
