Contact information
| Mail: | gregor.benz(at)tum.de |
| Phone: | |
| Room: | 261 (Campus Marsstr.) |
| Consultation hours: | individual appointment via mail |
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Professional experience
| since 07/2023 | Research assistant at the Professorship of Physics Education, TUM |
| 02/2025 - 03/2025 | Visiting Scholar with Prof. Joshua M. Rosenberg, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN |
| 02/2023 – 05/2023 | Visiting Scholar with Prof. Amy M. Masnick, Hofstra University, New York |
| 05/2020 – 06/2023 | Research assistant at the Institute for Physics and Technical Education, Karlsruhe University of Education |
| 09/2017 – 03/2020 | Applied research in the field of indoor localization, Sarissa GmbH, Weingarten, Germany |
Education
| 2020 – 2024 | PhD (Dr. phil.) at Karlsruhe University of Education, Institute of Physics and Technical Education. Topic of the dissertation: "Big Data" in Inquiry-Based Learning of Science. |
| 2018 – 2020 | Studies for teaching profession at vocational schools for electrical engineering and physics at University of Education (M.Sc.) |
| 2015 – 2018 | Studies for teaching profession at vocational schools for electrical engineering and physics at Ravensburg-Weingarten University (B.Eng.) |
Benz, G. (2024). "Big Data" in Inquiry-Based Learning of Science [Dissertation]. Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe. Link
Benz, G., & Ludwig, T. (2023). Going beyond general competencies in teachers' technological knowledge: Describing and assessing pre-service physics teachers' competencies regarding the use of digital data acquisition systems and their relation to general technological knowledge. Frontiers in Education, 8, 118097. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1180973
Benz, G., Buhlinger, C., & Ludwig, T. (2022). 'Big Data' in Physics Education: Discovering the Stick-Slip Effect through a High Sample Rate. Physics Education, 57(4), 045004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/ac59cb
Benz, G., & Ludwig, T. (2021). Förderung der TPCK-Kompetenzen von zukünftigen Physiklehrkräften im Bereich digitaler Messwerterfassungssysteme [Promoting of TPCK competencies of future physics teachers in the field of digital data acquisition systems]. In S. Habig (Hrsg.), Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht und Lehrerbildung im Umbruch? Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik, Jahrestagung in Aachen 2020. (S. 414-417). Universität Duisburg-Essen.
Oberdorfer, M., Esslinger, D., Benz, G., Sawodny, O., & Tarín, C. (2020). Robustness enhancements of time-of-flight measurements in a CDMA ultrasonic channel of an opto-acoustic indoor positioning system using MEMS microphones. 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Las Vegas.
Benz, G., & Siggelkow, A. (2020). Implementation of a GPS and GSM module into a Zynq Z7 SoC based emulator tracking system. 63. Workshop der Multi Projekt Chip Gruppe, Mannheim, 1-4.