Is a solid state physicist from Université Paris 13 Nord, France. She is involved in various teachings on electronics and computer science. In her classes she developed active learning tools using polls or self-assessment tests.


audrey.valentin@univ-paris13.fr 

Is a physicist in optics from Institut d’Optique Grad. School, France. He develops and puts into practice various innovative teachings in his school, such as streaming classes on Twitch during lockdown.


benjamin.vest@institutoptique.fr

Is a solid-state physicist at Université Paris-Saclay, France. She also works with architects and is part of various innovative teachings related to open labs or climate change. She coaches the university team for the French Physicists’ Tournament.

claire.marrache@ijclab.in2p3.fr

Is a soft matter physicist at Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, where he created the “frugal lab” to promote research inspired by fablabs, with a low cost approach. He is also a big fan of radical immersive teaching experiences.


denis.terwagne@ulb.be

Is a quantum physicist from Univ. Paris-Saclay, France. She co-created reversed class measurement and detection courses with strong experimental component and took part in open labs remote teaching lockdown.


francesca.chiodi@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Is a physicist involved in biophotonics for neuroscience at ENS Paris-Saclay, France. He took part in seminar courses gathering scientific researchers and people from private companies to teach students about team work, complex problems and orders of magnitude.


francois.marquier@ens-paris-saclay.fr

Is a chemist from the National University of Singapore. In his team “Senpai Learn”, he is a specialist of outreach projects and teachings with digital technology. He developed an augmented reality app to train learners’ spatial-visualization ability.

fun.man@nus.edu.sg

Is a physicist and STEM education researcher at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. He is specialized in research on student understanding and learning and helped develop a full curriculum, based on core challenges in engineering school.

genaro.zavala@tec.mx

Is a high energy physicist from the University of Rome, Italy. He developed teachings and trainings with low cost tools at all levels, from teachers to students.
He wrote a book explaining all you need to know on teaching with smartphones and Arduino.


giovanni.organtini@uniroma1.it

Is a physicist, now teaching in a French high school, but spent a great deal of time in USACH, a university in Chile. That’s where he helped turn the massive introductory physics for engineering lecture into a focus on learning scientific reasoning, using active methods.


guillaume.lagubeau@usach.cl

Is a soft matter physicist from Univ. Liège, Belgium. He is involved in various pedagogical innovations and outreach activities and created new types of exam to help students collaborate and get better, and not just be given marks.

herve.caps@uliege.be

Is a physicist from UniCam, Italy. She is the local coordinator of an Italian national initiative to promote STEM and innovate physics teaching and learning.
She developed and tested research-based teaching-learning sequences on quantum physics for high school students.


irene.marzoli@unicam.it

Is a quantum physicist from Sorbonne Université, France. He develops new types of teachings and outreach, that are often based on live experiments or everyday-life physics. He created a full course on open problem-solving for undergraduate students.


jean-michel.courty@sorbonne-universite.fr

Is a physicist specialized in mechanics and materials at Le Mans Université, France. He created a full self-paced learning course where his 60 students progress at their own rhythm using judo belts !


jean-michel.genevaux@univ-lemans.fr

Was a nuclear physicist and is now working at Aachen University, Germany to develop Phyphox, an app that collects data from all the sensors in your smartphone. A great way to do low-cost physics experiments, with only a phone needed.

jens@phyphox.org

Is a solid-state physicist, teaching at Univ. Grenoble and Valence, France. He collaborates with designers and artists to explore new types of teachings and creations. He was the first to introduce the smartphone as tool for teaching in university.


joel.chevrier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Is a chemist from ENS Paris-Saclay, France. He is head of a group of interest dedicated to innovation in teaching. He developed a challenge about fluorescence with everyday products to learn photophysics at master’s level.


jonathan.piard@ens-cachan.fr

Is an optics physicist from Ecole Polytechnique. He teaches both in a high level engineering school and in an undergraduate inclusive bachelor’s degree. During lockdown, he taught 1st year optics on Discord.


karsten.plamann@ensta-paris.fr

Is a physicist, currently finishing her PhD on medical-related optics at Ecole Polytechnique. She is also a great cello player and gave an outreach conference mixing live music and optics of butterfly wings.

maelle.vilbert@polytechnique.edu

Is a soft matter physicist, much involved in teaching innovation and outreach at Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, Italy. With some colleagues, she imagined a series of physics theatre shows for the general public, which were a great success all over the country.


marina.carpineti@unimi.it

Is a physics teacher from Universidad ORT Uruguay, specialized in smartphone-physics. There’s more : he’s involved in physics olympiads and outreach activities and has written many articles to help others use smartphones to make physics experiments.


fisica.martin@gmail.com

Is specialized in didactics at UQAM, Canada. He is particularly interested in ways to maximize physics learning, based on scientific studies and research. He helped develop different serious video games to teach basic maths to children, which proved very efficient.


riopel.martin@uqam.ca

Morgan Chabanon is a researcher in mechanical engineering at École Centrale-Supelec, France. He’s a defender of inclusive and active pedagogical practices, in particular by connecting science with society and art. One of his actions, workshops to teach thermodynamics through dance improvisation.

morgan.chabanon@centralesupelec.fr

Is a researcher and teacher at Sorbonne University. She is currently a resident in the « Labo des défis » where she is developing a head-heart-body project. She co-initiated InPACT (Interdisciplinary Personnel-driven Actions), a new way to envision 1st year master’s internships.


natacha.krins@sorbonne-universite.fr

Is a physicist at university Sorbonne Paris Nord, France. She teaches and develops outreach to spread knowledge about nanomaterials.
She creating a game-based learning experience for that.


nathalie.lidgi-guigui@univ-paris13.fr

Is specialized in didactics of science at UQAM, Canada. He is developing various research on how to learn better. For instance, he studied how the brain reacts in an MRI when you’re confronted to misconceptions in physics, depending on whether you are an expert or not.


potvin.patrice@uqam.ca

Is a prior high school physics teacher, now Associate Director of Global Initiatives for the PhET Interactive Simulations project at University of Colorado Boulder, USA. She co-designed Physics Toolbox, an app that uses mobile sensors to collect environmental data in the study of physics.

Rebecca.Vieyra@colorado.edu

Is a soft-matter physicist from Bordeaux University, France. He developed innovative teachings using smartphone at undergraduate level and wrote a book about it. During lockdown, he created online teachings with students and citizens using smartphones all together.


ulysse.delabre@u-bordeaux.fr