Vice President for Instruction and International Affairs
Vice President for Instruction and International Affairs
Professor Verena Pietzner has been Vice President for Instruction and International Affairs at the University of Oldenburg since January 1, 2020.
Since 2014, Prof. Dr. Pietzner has been a Professor of Chemistry Education at the University of Oldenburg, and she is leading the learning laboratory “ChemOL- Chemistry in Oldenburg”. After her teacher study program of mathematics and chemistry in Bielefeld, Prof. Dr. Pietzner received her doctorate at the University of Technology in Braunschweig, and qualified as a university lecturer in chemistry education at the same institute. Before Prof. Dr. Pietzner was offered a professorship in Oldenburg, she had taught and performed research at universities in Würzburg, Koblenz-Landau and Hildesheim.
Prof. Dr. Pietzner also concerns herself with creativity, as well as the deployment of technology in chemistry classes, interdisciplinary chemistry classes, and chemistry related career orientation. Her research has taken her as a guest scientist to Japan and Israel. From 2017-2019, she was Dean of Studies of the Faculty V (Mathematics and Natural Science).
Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Verena Pietzner
Study and doctorate
1992-1997: Teacher study programme at the University of Bielefeld with the subjects Mathematics and Chemistry for lower and upper secondary school - Degree: First State Exam
2000-2002: Ph.D. at the TU Braunschweig (Dr. rer. nat.) with the thesis Learning Control in the "Networked Study - Chemistry"; Development and evaluation of a concept using the example of the chapter "Addition of halogens to double bonds."
Professional career
1998-2000: Teacher training phase in Paderborn - Degree: Second State Exam
2000-2003: Lecturer at the TU Braunschweig, Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Education
2002-2009: Post Doc at the TU Braunschweig, Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Education
2005-2008: Spokeswoman of the Junior Scientists of the Department of Chemistry Education of the GDCh
2010: Habilitation with the thesis ChiLe - Chemistry interactive Learning: Curricular Innovation, learning processes and personal aspects at the TU Braunschweig
April to September 2009: Professor of Physical Chemistry and Chemistry Education at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau
October 2009 to February 2014: Professor of Chemistry and Chemistry Education at the University of Hildesheim
November 2012: Short Term Internship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Shizuoka University, Japan
Since March 2014: Professor of Chemistry Education at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
2015-2017: Member of the study commission of the Faculty V
2017-2019: Dean of Studies of the Faculty V