Peter Heering

About

Peter Heering is Full Professor of Physics and its Didactics and its History at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. He studied physics and chemistry to become a secondary school teacher. After completing a PhD in physics history and didactics and a two year internship (Referendariat), he became senior lecturer in the institute of physics at the Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

After being a Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum München and a professorial substitute in physics didactics at the Universität Augsburg, Heering moved to Flensburg in 2009.

Research focus

History of Physics
Replication method
history of science education
history of science in science education

Awards

Paul-Bunge Preis, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker und die Deutschen Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie 2024
Archimedes-Preis, Deutschen Verein zur Förderung des mathematischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Unterrichts e.V.2011