Education

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

I aim to foster a learning environment wherein curiousty takes the center stage. My focus in teaching centered around transferring fundamental knowledge in chemistry and math to students (the list below comprises courses that I thaught since 2011). Notably, to facilitate learning, I designed a new teaching method to foster creativity in classrooms (J. Chem Educ. 2023, #13). This method is embedded as a standard first-year bachelor project in our Chemistry Science & Engineering programme, and became the foundation of the 2025 Dutch Education Award. Currently, this method is applied to foster curiosity in my lab and preparing the next-generation chemistry student for Systems Thinking at Secondary Education, #19.

Impressions


July 2, 2025

The educational initiative CLEAR: Chemistry Learning for Environmental Action and Responsibility at the University of Twente has been awarded the Dutch Education Award 2025 (the highest national award for education). Check YouTube for our story.

June 10-11, 2025

Supramolecular and Systems chemistry at UT. The objective of the meeting “Supramolecular and Systems Chemistry lecture series” is to inspire and train PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers to design and synthesize chemical architectures with novel properties and functions.

November 27, 2023. Interview with C2W: "Uitzoomen en vooruitkijken: conceptueel modelleren in de klas" highlights our findings in establishing an evidenced-informed learning environment for conceptualizing new ideas! Thank you to Daniël Linzel for interviewing Albert Wong and Leonie Krab-Hüsken. 

November 11, 2023. Our paper (#13) in Journal of Chemical Education is out! Albert and colleagues designed a new teaching method to establish an evidenced-informed learning environment for conceptualizing new ideas. This method is also applied to foster curiosity in the CRN lab. I enjoyed guiding this unique collaboration involving an education program director, education specialist, learning assistant and four researchers!

October 12, 2023. EDUCATION. Albert Wong and Leonie Krab-Hüsken at the "2023 UT Inspriatiedag" inspiring high-school teachers to use Systems Thinking in chemistry in their classes. 

November 13-17, 2023. EDUCATION. Our team joined the 2023 MNF Writing week, organized by Albert Wong, together with prof. J. Huskens and Dr. S. Lindhoud. A wonderful week full of creativity!

COURSES THAUGHT AT THE UT

2024-2025

Q4

MSc

Biochemistry

5.0 EC

lecturer


Q3

BSc

Organic Chemistry

5.0 EC

lecturer


Q3

MSc

Nanochemistry

2.5 EC

lecturer


Q1

MSc

Systems Chemistry

2.5 EC

lecturer


Q1

BSc

Conceptual Modelling

2.0 EC

lecturer

2023-2024

Q3

MSc

Nanochemistry

2.5 EC

lecturer

Q2

PhD

Writing Bootcamp

1.5 EC

co-organiser & co-lecturer

Q1

BSc

Conceptual Modeling

2.0 EC

lecturer & tutor

Q1

MSc

Systems Chemistry

2.5 EC

lecturer

2022-2023

Q3

MSc

Physical Organic Chemistry

2.5 EC

lecturer

Q2

PhD

Systems & Supramolecular Chemistry

2.0 EC

co-organiser

Q1

BSc

Conceptual Modeling

2.0 EC

lecturer & tutor

2021-2022

Q3

MSc

Physical Organic Chemistry

2.5 EC

lecturer

Q3

BSc

Nanochemistry

2.5 EC

co-lecturer

Q3

BSc

Project Nano Technology

2.5 EC

lecturer

Q1

BSc

Project Food and Chemistry

2.0 EC

lecturer

COURSES thaught PRIOR TO THE UT

AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

2019-2020

S1

BSc

Physical Sciences 11

5.0 EC

teaching fellow

AT RADBOUD UNIVERSITY

2016-2017

Q2

BSc

Physical Organic Chemistry

2.5 EC

co-lecturer & teaching assistant

Q2

BSc

Wiskunde 2

2.5 EC

co-lecturer

Q1

BSc

Wiskunde 1

2.5 EC

co-lecturer

Pre-university

Summer School Mathematics

1.5 EC

co-lecturer

2015-2016

Q3

BSc

Wiskunde 3

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Q2

BSc

Physical Organic Chemistry

2.5 EC

co-lecturer & teaching assistant

Q2

BSc

Wiskunde 2

2.5 EC

co-lecturer

Q1

BSc

Wiskunde 1

2.5 EC

co-lecturer

Pre-university

Pre-U College of Science based on power of ten

1.0 EC

co-lecturer practical course

Pre-university

Summer School Mathematics

1.5 EC

co-lecturer

2014-2015

Q3

BSc

Wiskunde 3

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Q2

BSc

Physical Organic Chemistry

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Q2

BSc

Wiskunde 2

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Q1

BSc

Wiskunde 1

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Pre-university

Pre-U College of Science based on power of ten

1.0 EC

co-lecturer theory of dynamical systems

Pre-university

Summer School Mathematics

1.5 EC

co-lecturer

2013-2014

Q3

BSc

Wiskunde 3

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Q2

BSc

Wiskunde 2

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Q1

BSc

Wiskunde 1

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Pre-university

Summer School Mathematics

1.5 EC

teaching assistant

2012-2013

Q3

BSc

Wiskunde 3

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Q3

BSc

Metal Organic Chemistry

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Q2

BSc

Wiskunde 2

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Q1

BSc

Wiskunde 1

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

2011-2012

Q3

BSc

Project Reaction and Kinetics

2.5 EC

teaching assistant practical course 

Q2

BSc

Wiskunde 2

2.5 EC

teaching assistant

Q1

BSc

Wiskunde 1

2.5 EC

teaching assistant