Team Kassel
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Hochmuth
Reinhard Hochmuth is professor for Mathematics at the University of Kassel. He received
M.Sc. degrees in mathematics and psychology and a Ph.D. in mathematics
in 1989 all from Freie Universität in Berlin. From 1989 to 1994 he was
research assistant at the Freie Universität. 1995 he was postdoc at the
RWTH Aachen and 1996 to 1998 guest professor in Columbia (South
Carolina) and with the Laboratoiré d'Analyse Numerique at the Université
Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. After his habilitation in 2000 he
worked as associate professor at the Technical University in Freiberg,
as guest professor at the University in Potsdam and Kassel and from 2005
as Professor for Analysis in Kassel. Since 2001 he is Research Fellow
at the Zuse Institute in Berlin. In mathematics his main research areas
are partial differential equations, wavelets, nonlinear approximation
and functional analysis. In Kassel he is particularly and primarily
responsible for the mathematical component in the program for future
school teachers. Since 2005 he is involved in developing contents for
E-learning courses and engaged in empirical studies. He is a member of
the VEMA group.
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Pascal Rolf Fischer
Pascal Rolf Fischer got his degree (Staatsexamen) from Kassel University in the programme for future mathematics teachers. He specialized in e-learning and use of technology in mathematics education. Pascal Fischer has been working for VEMA since 2004 and he is responsible for the design of the web-based material and for running and coordinating the bridging courses every year. His Ph.D. project is concerned with evaluating the VEMA course, which will be taught in various types of blended learning. In this context, he is designing diagnostic tests and feedbacks for monitoring and evaluating students' learning processes and achievements when using the VEMA material. He is a member of the advisory board of the Service Centre for Teaching and of the Multimedia Commission of the University of Kassel.Homepage
Team Paderborn
Prof. Dr. Rolf Biehler
Rolf Biehler is professor for Didactics of Mathematics at the institute
of mathematics in Paderborn since 2009. From 1999 to February 2009 he
was professor at the University of Kassel and one of the founders of the
VEMA project in Kassel. He tudied mathematics and physics at the
Universities of Marburg and Bonn. He got his Ph.D. and his habilitation
in didactics of athematics from the University of Bielefeld. Until 1999,
he worked as a senior researcher at the IDM (Institut für Didaktik der
Mathematik) of the University of Bielefeld which used to be the national
centre of research in mathematics education from the 1970ies to the
late 1990ies. He co-edited the book 'Didactics of Mathematics as a
Scientific Discipline' and he is currently co-editor of the
Journal für Mathematik-Didaktik, the leading German journal for research
in mathematics ducation. His specialities are the use of information
technology in mathematics education and the didactics of probability and
statistics. He directed several projects concerned with
designing and evaluating learning materials and designing and adapting
software for mathematics education. Rolf Biehler organized several
international conferences and workshops, among others within the
International Congresses on Mathematical Education (ICME) and the
International Association of Statistics Education (IASE, ICoTS). He was a
member of the Kassel group of empirical educational research
'Lehren-Lernen-Literacy', where he was collaborating with psychologists
in a project on the use of computer-based-simulations in collaborative
learning processes. He is a founding member of the VEMA group.
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Thomas Wassong
Thomas Wassong got his degree (Staatsexamen) from Georg-August-University Göttingen for mathematics, ethics and computer science. He is co-author of a book about MuPAD, written at his study times. After his studies he changed 2008 to Kassel University, and since 2009 he is research assistant at University of Paderborn. He is also member of the VEMA Group since 2008. His research is focused on the use of eLearning in mathematics teaching and learning.Homepage