Magdalena Kersting
I am an educational researcher, mathematical physicist and science communicator. Currently, I work as a PhD researcher in the physics education group at the University of Oslo and with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery at the University of Western Australia. I have developed an online learning environment about Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity and study learning processes in Einsteinian physics.
Featured News
Relativity Online
So stoked about sharing our general relativity learning environment: After 2 years of development this marks a milestone in my PhD. Take a look & let me know what you think. And do share with the physics teacher or high school student in your life!
Einstein in Schools
My article on Einsteinian Physics in high schools is National Geographic Education's read of the week! Read on to find out why students should learn about Einstein's most revolutionary ideas from an early age - and how science educators are slowly catching up!
Latest news
EARLI Mentoring Grant: Embodied Cognition in Physics Education
I'm so happy to have been awarded an EARLI Mentoring Grant 2019: I will visit Jesper Haglund at Karlstad University, Sweden, to learn more about embodied cognition in physics education. Yay!
New paper in Physics Education: Free fall in curved spacetime
How can we visualise gravity in relativity? My article in Physics Education presents a new model that illustrates how warped time gives rise to gravity. Give it a read & let me know what you think!
New paper: Metaimagining and Embodied Conceptions of Spacetime
We live in a 4D-universe but our minds and bodies struggle to perceive four dimensions. How can learners reconcile relativity with their experiential understanding of space, time & gravity?
What's On
GIREP-ICPE-EPEC-MPTL
Teaching-learning contemporary physics from research to practice
July 1st-5th, 2019
Budapest, Hungary
GR22 & Amaldi13
22nd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation
July, 7th-12th, 2019
Valencia, Spain
CLMPST 2019
International Congress of Logic, Methodology & Philosophy of Science
August, 5th-10th, 2019
Prague, Czech Republic
