Dr. Elisabeth Dumont

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Lecturer

Expertise and research interests

Physics Education research; narratology and cognitive linguistics; system dynamics, modelling and simulations

Educational background

01/14 – 01/15 CAS Higher Education, PHZH
01/01 – 12/01 Postdoc at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
11/97 – 12/00 PhD at ETH Zurich
10/92 – 10/97 Diploma studies in Physics at ETH Zurich

Professional milestones

08/21-today Lecturer, Abteilung Lehre, SoE, ZHAW
08/10-07/21 Lecturer, IAMP, SoE, ZHAW
08/02 – 06/10 R&D, Bruker BioSpin AG, Fällanden

Projects

• FCHgo! / Project leader / Project completed
• Adaptive Linsen für Augmented Reality / Team member / Project completed
• SoE Projekt MPIG / Team member / Project completed
• Econimo / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Dumont, Elisabeth; Flumini, Dandolo; Fuchs, Hans Ulrich; Hauser, Helmut; Jaeger, Christian; Scheidegger, Stephan; Schönenberger-Deuel, Johanna; Lichtensteiger, Lukas; Luchsinger, Rolf H.; Weyland, Mathias,

  2014.

  Morphological control : a design principle for applications in space science.

  Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.

  67, pp. 305-313.

  Available from: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014JBIS...67..305F

• Pickhardt, Carola; Fuchs, Hans Ulrich; Dumont, Elisabeth; Hügel, Katrin; Witzig, Andreas,

  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, Bernadette; Erlemann, Jennifer; Müller Werder, Claude; Rapp, Christian, eds.,

  Seamless Learning.

  Wiesbaden:

  Springer.

  pp. 35-63.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-34698-0_2

• Fuchs, Hans U.; Corni, Federico; Dumont, Elisabeth,

  2021.

  Narrativity in complex systems

  .

  In:

  Zeyer, Albert; Kyburz-Graber, Regula, eds.,

  Science | Environment | Health : Towards a Science Pedagogy of Complex Living Systems.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 31-50.

  Contributions from Science Education Research ; 10.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75297-2_3

• Fuchs, Hans Ulrich; Contini, Anamaria; Dumont, Elisabeth; Landini, Alessandra; Corni, Federico,

  2018.

  How metaphor and narrative interact in stories of forces of nature

  .

  In:

  Hanne, Michael; Kaal, Anna A., eds.,

  Narrative and metaphor in education : look both ways.

  Routledge.

  pp. 91-104.

• Dumont, Elisabeth; Fuchs, Hans Ulrich; Corni, Federico; Contini, Annamaria; Altiero, Tiziana; Marcello, Romagnoli; Karwasz, Grzegorz P.,

  2021.

  FCHgo : fuel cells hydrogen educational model for schools, an imaginative approach to hydrogen and fuel cell technology for young students and their teachers [paper].

  In:

  GIREP–ICPE–EPEC–MPTL Conference, Budapest, 1-5 July 2019.

  IOP Publishing.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1929/1/012019

• Dumont, Elisabeth; Fuchs, Hans Ulrich,

  2018.

  Can explicit modeling of dynamical systems in physics change students’ beliefs concerning the nature of scientific knowledge? [poster].

  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.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4836

• Fuchs, Hans Ulrich; Corni, Federico; Dumont, Elisabeth,

  2016.

  Narrative framing of natural scenes : narrative minds in science [paper].

  In:

  10th International Conference on Conceptual Change: Conceptual Change Meets other Disciplines, Florina, Greece, 2-5 June 2016.

• Corni, Federico; Dumont, Elisabeth; Fuchs, Hans Ulrich; Schütz, Edy,

  2016.

  The energy principle in a model of electric braking of a flywheel [poster].

  In:

  GIREP Seminar on the Occasion of GIREP 50th Anniversary, Krakow, Poland, 30 August - 3 September 2016.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4834

• Dumont, Elisabeth; Maurer, Werner,

  2014.

  Modelling elastomer buffers with DyMoRail [paper].

  In:

  10th International Modelica Conference, Lund, Sweden, 10-12 March 2014.

• Dumont, Elisabeth; Maurer, Werner,

  2012.

  DyMoRail : a modelica library for modelling railway buffers [paper].

  In:

  9th International Modelica Conference 2012, Munich, Germany, 3-5 September 2012.

• Dumont, Elisabeth,

  2017.

  Mythisches Denken und romantisches Verstehen im wissenschaftlichen Prozess [paper].

  In:

  Best Teaching - Best Practices 2017: Vermittlung von Wissenschaftlichkeit, Winterthur, 6. September 2017.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4835

• Dumont, Elisabeth; Maurer, Werner,

  2014.

  Systems physics library [poster].

  In:

  10th International Modelica Conference, Lund, Sweden, 10-12 March 2014.

• Dumont, Elisabeth; Fuchs, Hans Ulrich,

  2017.

  Visual metaphors as applied to process diagrams.

  In:

  GIREP-ICPE-EPEC 2017 Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 3-7 July 2017.

• Dumont, Elisabeth,

  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, Anamaria; Corni, Federico; Fuchs, Hans Ulrich; Dumont, Elisabeth,

  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, Elisabeth,

  2015.

  From forces of nature to physics of dynamical systems.

  In:

  Exploratory Workshop on Narrative in Science, Weissbad, Switzerland, 6-9 July 2015.

• Venturini, Francesca; Dumont, Elisabeth; Fuchs, Hans Ulrich; Maurer, Werner,

  2014.

  From forces of nature to the physics of dynamical systems.

  In:

  9th International Conference on Conceptual Change, Bologna, Italy, 26-29 August 2014.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

“Unconventional Vortex Dynamics in Superconducting States with Broken Time Reversal Symmetry”, E. Dumont and A.C. Mota, Phys. Rev. B 65, 144519 (2002)
“Unconventional strong pinning in the low temperature phase of U0.9725Th0.0275Be13”, E. Dumont, A. C. Mota, and J.L. Smith, Physica B 284-288 (2000) 525-526.
“Unconventional strong pinning in multiphase superconductors”, A. C. Mota, E. Dumont, J.L. Smith, Y. Maeno, Physica C 332, 272 (2000)
“Transition into a low temperature superconducting phase of unconventional pinning in Sr2RuO4”, A.C. Mota, E. Dumont, A. Amann, Y. Maeno, Physica B 259-261 (1999) 934-935; cond-mat/0001184
“Strong vortex pinning in the low-temperature superconducting phase of (U1-x,Thx)Be13”, A. C. Mota, E. Dumont, J.L. Smith, J. of Low Temp. Phys. Vol 177 (1999) p.1477; cond-mat/0001185

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