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.
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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. |
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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! |
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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! |
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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 | |