Simone Abels

Biography

Since 2017: Professorship for science education at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany 2016: Junior professorship for science education at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany 2011-2016: Research assistant (postdoc) of Univ-Prof. Dr Anja Lembens at the Austrian Educational Competence Centre Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria 2009-2011: Trainee teacher at a school for hearing impaired pupils and a school for learning disabled as well as behaviour disordered pupils in Hamburg, Germany 2010: Thesis defense (summa cum laude) 2006-2009: Research assistant (predoc) of Univ.-Prof. Dr Annelie Wellensiek at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Faculty of Education, Department of Chemistry Didactics. Dissertation: “Teachers as ‘Reflective Practitioners’. Reflection competence for a democracy fostering science education” (summa cum laude); distinguished by the prize of the ‘Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik’ (association for didactics of chemistry and physics) for the advancement of young academics to appreciate the excellent graduation performance 2001-2006: Academic studies of special needs education and chemistry at the University of Hamburg, Germany

Research Interest

science education.