Prof. Dr. Florian Schacht

Florian Schacht

Prof. Dr.

Florian Schacht

Address:
Thea-Leymann-Straße 9, Room WSC-S-2.05, 45127 Essen
Phone:
+49 201 183 3837
Fax:
+49 201 183 2426
E-Mail:
florian.schacht (at) uni-due.de

Curriculum Vitae

Florian Schacht is a full professor in Mathematics Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focuses on digitalization in school- as well as university teaching and learning, inclusion and language in the mathematics classroom. Furthermore, he conducts research (Netzwerkpartner) in the context of the DZLM research network (German Center for Mathematics Teacher Education) in the field of professionalization of (prospective and experienced) mathematics teachers.  Currently, he is the scientific director and chairman of the board of the Center for Teacher Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Curriculum Vitae

since 2022

Academic director and chairman of the Board of the Center for Teacher Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen

since 2022

Chairman of the Examination Board for Mathematics BA & MA for the teaching degree in Special Needs Education

since 2015

Full Professor in Mathematics Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2020

Offer of a full professorship in Mathematics Education (Higher secondary schools) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (declined)

2018

Offer of a  full professorship in Mathematics Education at Saarland University (declined)

2019

Research stay at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

2013 - 2014

Substitute professorship in Mathematics Education at the University of Siegen

2013 - 2015

Research Assistant at the Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education at the TU Dortmund

2011 - 2013

Trainee teacher, Cecilien-Gymnasium Düsseldorf, Subjects: mathematics and music

2011

PhD (Dissertation in Mathematics Education at TU Dortmund University

2008 - 2011

Scientific assistant at the Institute for Development and Research in Mathematics Education at TU Dortmund University

2003 - 2008

Studies: Mathematics and Music at TU Dortmund University

Scholarships and Awards

2014

Young Researcher Award, Congress Scholarship of the Faculty of Mathematics at TU Dortmund University

2012

Award of the Society for Didactics of Mathematics (GDM) in recognition of the excellent dissertation

2008

Award for the best thesis in mathematics didactics, Faculty of Mathematics, TU Dortmund University

2004 - 2008

Scholarship as part of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's study support program

1999 - 2000

Scholarship for a one year stay in the USA from the German Bundestag as part of the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program

Scientific Responsibilities

since 2024 Speaker of the Department of Mathematics Education at the UDE
since 2023 Member of the Advisory Board of the Science and Education Network (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)

since 2021

Chairman of the Joint Commission on Teacher Education of the GDM, DMV and MNU

since 2020

Network partner in the German Center for Mathematics Teacher Education (DZLM) as part of the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education

since 2020

Co-leader of Thematic Working Group 16 (Learning Mathematics with Technology and Other Resources), CERME 12, CERME 13, CERME 14

since 2020

Member of the selection committee of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

2020 – 2021

Member of the International Program Committee of ICTMT 15 (2021)

2020-2023

Member of the International Program Committee of CERME 13 (Budapest, 2023)

2019-2022 Speaker of the Department of Mathematics Education at the UDE

2019

Conference chair of the interdisciplinary conference on digitalization in teaching at the UDE (with Inga Gryl and Michael Beißwenger)

2019

Conference chair of ICTMT 14 at the UDE (together with Bärbel Barzel)

2018

Conference management of the MINT Congress on MINT Teaching of the Future at the UDE (Interdisciplinary Federal Congress on Teacher Training)

2018

Founding member of the XR-Learning working group at the UDE on the use of augmented reality in university courses

since 2017

Speaker of the GDM working group on mathematics education and digital tools

since 2016

Scientific Liaison of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung