In
Helix - the new roller coaster at Liseberg - several of my interests
are brought together: Symmetries, physics education, fundamental physics
- including the equivalence principle, and, of course, roller coasters!
From Atoms to Individuals
From a background in computational atomic physics, my research
focus has shifted during recent years to science education. From 1
July 2009, I am the director of the
National Resource
Centre for Physics Education.
As a professor at the Göteborg university physics department, I
have taught many different student groups. For several years I had
the privilege of teaching first-year students in
engineering
physics. I
am a member of the editorial board of
Physics
Education.
and was a member (2005-2011) of the
ICPE
- International Committee on Physics Education
I am also involved with the graduate school
CUL
(The Centre for Educational Sciences and Teacher Research) at
Göteborg university (GU) and study physics
at the Liseberg amusement park and other
amusement parks. Examples of educational science
research questions of interest to me:
How do students understand the
concepts of acceleration and force?
Are
learning and understanding Newton's laws facilitated if the body
that experiences forces is your own?
What influences teacher's
decisions to use resources outside the classroom ?
How do informal learning
situations contribute to public learning and understanding of
science?
"for her
contributions to the development and use of atomic many-body
methods to explore relativistic effects and parity
non-conservation in heavy atoms"
