• Since August 2017: Scholarship holder of the State of Lower Saxony in the project: STEM Learning in Informal Settings (GINT)
• 2015–2017: Master’s degree in Science Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Primary Education, Greece
• 2011–2015: Diplom in Primary Education, University of Crete, Department of Primary Education, Greece
• Teaching: Exemplary science topics: Physics experiments and their integration into General Studies

A number of studies have shown that visits to out-of-school learning venues have a very positive effect on visitors’ interest and motivation (DeWitt et al., 2007; Guderian, 2007; Holmes, 2011; Faria et al., 2012; Scharfenberg et al., 2014). However, these studies leave open the questions of whether further objectives—particularly in the area of learning—are achieved; whether learning processes take place that have a different structure to those in schools; and to what extent these processes can be described using the model of inquiry-based learning (Kirschner et al., 2006). A number of research questions therefore remain unanswered and will be investigated in this PhD project: What learning processes do pupils go through whilst interacting with exhibitions? Which characteristics of the exhibits, explanatory media, graphics, display items, etc. facilitate understanding or hinder it? What difficulties do pupils encounter in understanding and interpreting the exhibition content based on their prior knowledge? What are the intentions of the subject specialists and non-subject didacticians who design the exhibitions? Methodologically, pupils are closely monitored and observed during their visits to exhibitions and are surveyed via interviews and questionnaires. The exhibition organisers and designers, as well as the teachers, are interviewed. The data collected is analysed using qualitative content analysis.

• A., Chalkia K., Stavrou D. (2017, submitted), Investigation of educational programmes at informal marine research learning venues, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society for the Didactics of Chemistry and Physics, Regensburg, 2017. Münster