Recherche

Didactique des sciences physiques

Le groupe de recherche en Didactique de Sciences Physiques est dirigé par Andreas Müller. Il est actuellement composé des membres suivants :

Current Members  
GASPARINI Alice senior post-doc and physics teacher
GRAULICH Jean-Sébastien lecturer and physics teacher
GSHWIND Stéphane project fellow and physics teacher
JACQUIER Murièle lecturer and physics teacher
KAMPOURAKIS Kostas senior scientist and lecturer
LUCCHESI CLAUDIO lecturer and physics teacher
McKINNNON Laurence lecturer and physics teacher
ROCH Sébastien physics teacher
STERN Florian senior post-doc
TAWFIK Serag lecturer and chemistry teacher

 

Former Members  
DELAVAL Marine post-doc
GRUNDISCH Alain lecturer
HETTMANSPERGER Rosa post-doc
MERIS Marco lecturer
WEISS Laura lecturer and senior scientist

 

Current PhD students   
 
DAHLKEMPER Merten CERN/University of Göttingen (co-supervisor)
LAMPARTER Tatjana Ludwig-Maximilian-University Münich (co-supervisor)
HAVLENA Silvia University of Salzburg (co-supervisor)
SCHRIEBL Daniela HEP of St. Gall/University of Geneva (supervisor)
KELLER Oliver CERN/University of Geneva (supervisor)
DA COSTA Julien University of Geneva (co-supervisor)
DARMENDRAIL Luis (supervisor)
LORETAN Cedric University of Geneva (supervisor)

 

Former PhD students
 
GASPARINI Alice University of Geneva (supervisor)
STERN Florian University of Geneva (supervisor)
WOITHE Julia CERN/University of Kaiserslautern (co-supervisor)
SIMON Florian Helmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf and TU Dresden (co-supervisor)
HIRTH Michael Technical University Kaiserslautern/Ger (co-supervisor)
KLEIN Pascal Technical University Kaiserslautern/Ger (co-supervisor)
MOLZ Alecander Technical University Kaiserslautern/Ger (co-supervisor)
CORS Rebecca HEP St. Gall/University of Geneva (supervisor)
HOCHBERG Katrin Technical University Kaiserslautern/Ger (co-Supervisor)
LENZNER Alwine University of Landau (co-supervisor)
SCHEID Jochen University of Landau (supervisor)
HETTMANSPERGER Rosa University of Landau (co-supervisor)
POTH Thomas University of Landau (supervisor)
VOGT Patrick University of Landau (supervisor)
KUHN Jochen University of Landau (co-supervisor)

a) Research-based development and empirical research in science (especially: physics) education and science teacher education, e.g. about: role of tasks and experiments in science learning; mobile devices and other ICT for physics learning; conceptual learning; interdisciplinary connections physics education - general science education. See e.g.

Stern, F., Kampourakis, K., & Müller, A. (2022). “Genes for a role,” “genes as essences”: Secondary students' explicit and implicit intuitions about genetic essentialism and teleology. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21796

Woithe, J., Müller, A., Schmeling, S., & Kuhn, J. (2022). Motivational outcomes of the science outreach lab S'Cool LAB at CERN: A multilevel analysis. Journal of Research in Science Teaching , 1– 39. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21748

Scheid, J., Müller, A., Hettmannsperger, R., & Schnotz, W. (2019). Improving learners’ representational coherence ability with experiment-related representational activity tasks. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 15(1), 010142. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010142

Keller, O., Benoit, M., Müller, A., & Schmeling, S. (2019). Smartphone and Tablet-Based Sensing of Environmental Radioactivity: Mobile Low-Cost Measurements for Monitoring, Citizen Science, and Educational Purposes. Sensors, 19(19), 4264. https://www.mdpi.com/545104

Müller, A. (2019). Physics Education Research - An Applied Science (part 2). Progress in Physics no. 68. Communications of the Swiss Physical Society, 59, 25-29

Müller, A. (2019). Physics Education Research - An Applied Science (part 1). Progress in Physics no. 68. Communications of the Swiss Physical Societ, 58, 28-33

Hochberg, K., Kuhn, J., & Müller, A. (2018). Using Smartphones as Experimental Tools – Effects on Interest, Curiosity, and Learning in Physics Education. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 27, 385-403.

 

b) Physics/science of everyday phenomena, hands-on-experiments, order-of-magnitude reasoning; see e.g.

Darmendrail, L., & Müller, A. (2021). Standing Vertical Jumps–Sports Physics with a Smartphone. The Physics Teacher, 59(4), 264-267.

Darmendrail, L., & Müller, A. (2021). The Euler disk and its dynamic finite time singularity: Investigating a fascinating acoustical and mechanical phenomenon with simple means. Acoustical Science and Technology, 42(4), 193-199.

Darmendrail, L., & Müller, A. (2020). Helmholtz in the kitchen: a frying pan as a volume resonator. European Journal of Physics, 41(3), 035804. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/ab6fba

Klein, P., Müller, A., Molz, A., Gröber, S., & Kuhn, J. (2017). Rotational and frictional dynamics of the slamming of a door. American Journal of Physics, 85, 30-37.

Müller, A., Hirth, M., & Kuhn, J. (2016). Tunnel Pressure Waves – A Mobile Phone Inquiry on a Rail Travel. The Physics Teacher, 54, 118-119.

Müller, A., Vogt, P., Kuhn, J., & Müller, M. (2015). Cracking knuckles – A smartphone inquiry on bioacoustics. The Physics Teacher, 53, 307-308.

Müller, A., & Loretan, C. (2016). Fermi in the Woods. The Physics Teacher, 54, 383-84.

 

c) Improvement of general interest for and understanding of physics/science (“public understanding of science”), eg. by out-of-school learning offers; see e.g.

– Stellarium Gornergrat: https://stellarium-gornergrat.ch/?lang=fr

– Green Breath Box: https://www.unige.ch/ecotox/en/recherches/projets-en-cours/green-breath-box

– Climatizens: https://www.unige.ch/climatizens/objectifs

Les publications des différents membres du groupe se trouvent sur leur page web individuelles.

Publications (LINK)