dr. A (Antonija) Rimac-van Heerwaarden
DocentAbout
Education is my passion. There is no greater reward than to see students develop their critical thinking and problem resolving skills. This is my main motivation to be a lecturer. Since I was a student in gymnasium, I enjoyed studying physics. I see the understanding of physical laws and processes as the cornerstone for understanding other sciences and for understanding the world in which we live. At the moment, I work as education developer, lecturer and course coordinator at Wageningen University.
Education
- I co-developed and coordinate "Learn the scientific method in a changing climate course", a dynamic e-learning course on scientific methods. In this course, I provide the domain-specific knowledge (related to the atmospheric boundary layer), and guide the students in the development of their research project by focusing on core concepts of the scientific world.
- I co-developed "Inter-university sustainability challenge", an elective course open for BSc students where in the CBL setup we engage with the sustainable city of the future, the city of 1.5 degrees.
- I co-developed and coordinate "Soil, Water, Atmosphere - Personal development path", a course that is sort of a companion that goes along with student throughout their journey in the BSc programme Soil, Water, Atmosphere (next to students' other courses it stratches over the full length of their BSc).
- I coordinate BSc thesis trajectory for the Soil, Water, Atmosphere programme, and I develop templates, assessment rubrics and course material for this trajectory.
- I devlop practicals using jupyter notebooks for various courses within BSc and MSc programmes. I have been developping a series of low-tech video clips to support my teaching.
Research
- Educational research projects aiming to ensure a successful future of (online) challenge-based learning courses across universities.
- Glacier run explicit glacier models in order to analyze the glacier length records and to reconstruct climate in remote areas across the globe.
- Ocean analyse the energetics of the ocean using a global ocean general circulation model. This research is mainly focused on the influence of high-resolution wind stress field on the oceanic energy.