Prof. Dr. Timm Wilke
Prof. Dr. Timm Wilke
Prof. Dr. Timm Wilke
Timm Wilke was appointed to the professorship of Chemistry Education in 2023. A brief profile can be found here. His research activities focus in particular on the following areas:
- Didactic reconstruction of current research topics for schools and student laboratories, with a current emphasis on nanotechnology, (photo)catalysis, functional materials, and (nano)medicine.
- Artificial intelligence in chemistry education, including the development of an AI-based assistance system for students and teachers (Chemie.KI).
- Development of digital teaching and learning tools, such as LabPi, accompanied by corresponding instructional formats for school education, higher education, and research.
- Development of (digitally) extended learning environments, for example digital differentiation matrices, in student and teaching–learning laboratories, through which these thematic areas are synergistically interconnected.
Research across all four areas is carried out in close integration with school practice and with all three phases of teacher education.
Short CV
Current
- since 2023: Professor (W3) of Chemistry Education as Lower Saxony Profile Professor at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Academic Career
- 2024: Call for a W3 Professorship of Chemistry Education at the University of Cologne (declined).
- 2022-2023: Institute Director at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- 2020-2023: Professor (W3) of Chemistry Education at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- 2019-2020: Additionally, Visiting Professor of Chemistry Education at Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria
- 2017-2020: Additionally, part-time teacher at a high school in Braunschweig
- 2016-2020: Assistant Professor (W1) of Chemistry Education at TU Braunschweig (2019: positive interim evaluation)
Study, Doctorate
- 2017: Dr. rer. nat. (equals PhD) in Chemistry Education ("summa cum laude" / with highest honors)
- 2016: Visiting Scientist at IPN Kiel (Department of Chemistry Education, I. Parchmann)
- 2015: Visiting Scientist at Florida Institute of Technology, Chemistry Department (Melbourne/USA, K. Winkelmann)
- 2012-2016: Additionally, Chemistry Teacher at MTA School, Göttingen
- 2012: Started doctoral studies in the Department of Chemistry Education at the University of Göttingen (T. Waitz)
- 2012: Master of Education at Georg-August-University of Göttingen (with distinction)
- 2010: Research stay at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse/FR (6 months, H. Gornitzka, D. Stalke)
- 1988: Born in Brussels, Belgium
Scholarships, Awards, Honors
- 2023: Lower Saxony Profile Professorship (> 1 Mio €)
- 2021: STEM Ambassador of the Year 2021 under the patronage of Dr. Angela Merkel | Link
- 2021: 1st Prize from the Entrepreneurship Hub for the LabPi
- 2020: "Most Accessed" Awards (top 10%) for articles in the scientific journals CHEMKON and Chemie in Unserer Zeit (period 2018-2019)
- 2019: Visiting Professorship at Karl-Franzens-University Graz/Austria
- 2019: Appointment to the Young Braunschweig Scientific Society (JBWG)
- 2017: Faculty of Chemistry Award (University of Göttingen) for outstanding doctoral achievements
- 2013 – 2016: Doctoral scholarship from the Foundation of German Business (sdw). Therein admission to the Study College (sdw).
- 2012: Funding of the dissertation project by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony
- 2012: Scholarship for teacher training candidates from the Fund of the Chemical Industry
Selected publications
- M. Petersen, J. Bauschulte, S. Talledo, K. Hotzel, M. Wark, K. Peneva, S. Bernhard, T. Wilke, „Synthesis of Polymeric Carbon Nitrides in a low-cost Moka Furnace for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation with Visible Light”, J. Chem. Educ. 2025, 7, 2912–2919, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.5c00114
- A. Fruntke, J. Hülsmann, L. H. Skodda, B. Blümbott, M. Godmann, A. Koschella, T. Heinzel, T. Heinze, T. Wilke, „Polysaccharide-based Nanoparticles prepared by dialysis: Novel Drug Delivery systems for Chemistry Education”, J. Chem. Educ. 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00895
- N. ter Horst, J. Dietrich, T. Wilke, „Digitalchemlab – digital and complexity-differentiated learning modules in an out of school student laboratory”, J. Chem. Educ. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c01228
- A. Fruntke, M. Behnke, L. M. Stafast, T. Träder, E. C. Dietel, A. Vollrath, C. Weber, U. S. Schubert*, T. Wilke*: "Targeted drug delivery: Synthesis of smart nanocarriers for school chemistry education", J. Chem. Educ. 2023, 2, 751, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00422 | Cover
- M. Wejner, T. Wilke, "LabPi: A digital measuring station for STEM Education 4.0", J. Chem. Educ. 2022, 2, 819-827, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c01139
- T. Schütt, M. Wejner, J. Kimmig, S. Zechel, T. Wilke*, U. S. Schubert*, "Improvement of high-throughput experimentation using synthesis robots by the implementation of tailor-made sensors", Polymers 2022, 3, 361, DOI: 10.3390/polym14030361
- R. Saadat, B. Bartram, T. Wilke, "Made to Measure: Easy Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocomposites with Tailored Functionalities for School Chemistry Education", W. J. Chem. Educ. 2019, 2, 65-71. Link
Participation in Roles, Committees, and Activities
- Chairman of the Research Centre NorthWest for Students e. V. (SFZ-NW)
- Member of the editorial board of the journal Chemie Konkret (Wiley-VCH)
- Reviewer for various scientific journals (Chemie Konkret, Journal of Chemical Education, World Journal of Chemical Education, Chemie in unserer Zeit, Unterricht Chemie, New Perspectives in Science Education, Praxis der Naturwissenschaften, ...)
- Participation in numerous appointment committees (Didactics of Chemistry, Chemistry, Educational Sciences)
- Involvement in national and international reaccreditation processes
- Member of various scientific committees (New Perspectives in Science Education, Florence/Italy, International Junior Science Olympiad 2020, Frankfurt, ...)
- Senior Fellow, Digitalization in Chemistry Education Griup of the German Chemical Society