Dr. Elisabeth Dumont

Work at ZHAW

Position

Program Director Engineering and Management

Professional development teaching

WBK Fachdidaktik MINT

Experience

Research and Development
Bruker BioSpin
08 / 2002 - 06 / 2010

Education and Continuing education

Education

• CAS Higher Education
  PHZH
  01 / 2014 - 12 / 2014
• Postdoc / Solid State Physics
  University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  01 / 2001 - 12 / 2001
• Dr. sc. nat. / Solid State Physics
  ETH Zürich
  08 / 1997 - 12 / 2000
• Dipl. Phys. ETH / Physics
  ETH Zürich
  10 / 1992 - 07 / 1997

Projects

• Fuel Cells HydroGen educatiOnal model for schools / Project leader / completed
• Adaptive lenses for augemted reality applications / Team member / completed
• SoE Project MPIG / Team member / completed
• Econimo / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Fuchs, H. U., Dumont, E. and Corni, F. (2024) 'Carnot and the archetype of waterfalls', Entropy, 26(12), p. 1066. doi: 10.3390/e26121066.
• Füchslin, R. M. et al. (2014) 'Morphological control : a design principle for applications in space science', Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 67, pp. 305–313. Available at: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014JBIS...67..305F.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Pickhardt, C. et al. (2022) 'Modellieren, Visualisieren und die Simulation dynamischer Systeme als Seamless Learning : ein Beitrag zu diesem Prozess aus der Praxis am Beispiel eines Mathematikmoduls', in Dilger, B. et al. (eds) Seamless Learning. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 35–63. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-34698-0_2.
• Fuchs, H. U., Corni, F. and Dumont, E. (2021) 'Narrativity in complex systems', in Zeyer, A. and Kyburz-Graber, R. (eds) Science | Environment | Health : Towards a Science Pedagogy of Complex Living Systems. Cham: Springer, pp. 31–50. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-75297-2_3.
• Fuchs, H. U. et al. (2018) 'How metaphor and narrative interact in stories of forces of nature', in Hanne, M. and Kaal, A. A. (eds) Narrative and metaphor in education : look both ways. Routledge, pp. 91–104.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Dumont, E. et al. (2021) 'FCHgo : fuel cells hydrogen educational model for schools, an imaginative approach to hydrogen and fuel cell technology for young students and their teachers', in Journal of Physics: Conference Series. IOP Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1929/1/012019.
• Dumont, E. and Fuchs, H. U. (2018) 'Can explicit modeling of dynamical systems in physics change students' beliefs concerning the nature of scientific knowledge?', in 11th International Conference on Conceptual Change: «Epistemic Cognition and Conceptual Change», Klagenfurt, Austria, 29 August - 1 September 2018. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4836.
• Fuchs, H. U., Corni, F. and Dumont, E. (2016) 'Narrative framing of natural scenes : narrative minds in science', in 10th International Conference on Conceptual Change: Conceptual Change Meets other Disciplines, Florina, Greece, 2-5 June 2016.
• Corni, F. et al. (2016) 'The energy principle in a model of electric braking of a flywheel', in GIREP Seminar on the Occasion of GIREP 50th Anniversary, Krakow, Poland, 30 August - 3 September 2016. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4834.
• Dumont, E. and Maurer, W. (2014) 'Modelling elastomer buffers with DyMoRail', in 10th International Modelica Conference, Lund, Sweden, 10-12 March 2014.
• Dumont, E. and Maurer, W. (2012) 'DyMoRail : a modelica library for modelling railway buffers', in 9th International Modelica Conference 2012, Munich, Germany, 3-5 September 2012.

Other publications

• Dumont, E. (2017) 'Mythisches Denken und romantisches Verstehen im wissenschaftlichen Prozess', in Best Teaching - Best Practices 2017: Vermittlung von Wissenschaftlichkeit, Winterthur, 6. September 2017. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4835.
• Dumont, E. and Maurer, W. (2014) 'Systems physics library', in 10th International Modelica Conference, Lund, Sweden, 10-12 March 2014.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Dumont, E. and Fuchs, H. U. (2017) 'Visual metaphors as applied to process diagrams', in GIREP-ICPE-EPEC 2017 Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 3-7 July 2017.
• Dumont, E. (2016) 'From forces of nature to the physics of dynamical systems', in Workshop on Assessment of a Narrative Approach to Science Education, Reggio Emilia, Italy, March 2016.
• Contini, A. et al. (2016) 'Metaphor and narrative in science : an interdisciplinary approach part II – from metaphor to narrative in macroscopic physical science', in Fourth Conference on Innovation in Science Education in Primary School and Kindergarten, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2-3 December 2016.
• Dumont, E. (2015) 'From forces of nature to physics of dynamical systems', in Exploratory Workshop on Narrative in Science, Weissbad, Switzerland, 6-9 July 2015.
• Venturini, F. et al. (2014) 'From forces of nature to the physics of dynamical systems', in 9th International Conference on Conceptual Change, Bologna, Italy, 26-29 August 2014.

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