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Ute Harms
Prof. Dr. | Biology Education
Current projects
- FaBiUs – Transferring findings from education sciences to (prospective) teachers
- EngageMINT – EngageMINT: Transfer and communication of knowledge for environmentally aware young people to raise interest in STEM
- DigiProMIN – Digitization-related and digitally supported professional development of STEM teachers
Recent publications at the IPN
Research topics
- Teaching and Learning of core concepts in science
- Development of reasoning and argumentation competences in science
- Promotion and impact of professional competence of biology teachers
- Extracurricular promotion of knowledge and interest in biology
Position
| 2007 - present | Head of Department Biology Education, IPN – Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education and Full Professor of Biology Eduation, Kiel University | ||
Profile
| 2011 - 2013 | Guest professor, ISV-Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University (Sweden) | ||
| 2006 - 2007 | Chair (W3) for Biology Education, University of Bremen | ||
| 2005 - 2006 | Founding Director of the Teacher Education Centre, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich | ||
| 2004 - 2006 | Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich | ||
| 2000 - 2006 | Professor (C3) for Biology Education, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich | ||
| 2000 | Offer of a Chair for Biology Education, Georg-August-University Göttingen (declined) | ||
| 1999 - 2000 | Research Scientist, Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Department Biology Education | ||
| 1995 - 1999 | Research Scientist, IPN – Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Department Biology Education, and Biology Teacher, Max-Planck-Gymnasium, Kiel | ||
| 1993 | Visiting Research Scientist, Institut de la Recherche Argonomique (INRA), Clermont-Ferrand (France) | ||
| 1993 - 1995 | Student Teacher, Studienseminar Stade (Lower Saxony) | ||
| 1990 - 1993 | Research Scientist, Kiel University, Botanical Institute | ||
Qualifications
| 1995 | Second State Examination in Biology and German, Stade | ||
| 1993 | Doctorate in Botany/Cell Biology, Kiel University | ||
| 1989 | First State Examination in Biology and German Language and Literature, Kiel University | ||
| 1982 - 1989 | Studies in Biology, German Language and Literature, Philosophy and Pedagogy, Kiel University | ||
