Teaching

Current and upcoming courses

• Lecture course “Mathematical Methods and Multivariable Calculus” (MAS220), Murdoch University, Semester 1 (2023)
• Lecture Course “Modelling and Simulation” (MAS354), Murdoch University, Semester 2 (2023)

Past courses

• PhD research school “Self-assembly of biomolecules and soft materials: Experimental and computational techniques for structure and topology investigations“, 6-14 June 2019, Copenhagen
• Lecture course “Mathematical Methods and Multivariable Calculus” (MAS220), Murdoch University, taught in Semester 1 of all years 2015-2023 (except 2019)
• Lecture Course “Modelling and Simulation” (MAS354), Murdoch University, Semester 2 (2023)
• Lecture Course “Research in the Physical and Life Sciences” (BSC200), Semester 1 (2016) and Semester 1 (2017), Murdoch University. (Joint unit coordination with Prof Cassandra Berry, VLS)
• Lecture Course “Foundations of Discrete Mathematics” (MAS162), taught in all Semesters 2 (July-Nov) in years 2015-2020 at Murdoch University and in 2019 as an Open Universities Australia (OUA) course, all as unit coordinator
• Postgraduate Research School “Winter Research School on Soft and Biological Materials”, held at Murdoch University, 26-30 Sept 2016 (main organiser)
• Lecture Course “Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics”, Theoretische Physik 4, Winter semester 2014/15, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
• Seminar course “Optimal Shapes and Complex Structure in Soft Matter Physics”, seminar course at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, winter term 2013/14
• Lecture course “Introduction to computational physics and numerical methods” (undergraduate level), at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, all summer semesters from 2007 – 2014
• Summer school ’Geometry and topology of liquid crystals and related ordered ma-
  terials’, held a few times: Niels Bohr Institute International PhD School, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-23 August 2013, and 3-9 Sept 2017, and 6-12 August 2022, and RMIT, Melbourne 12-16 August 2014 (lectures and co-organisation, assisting main organisers Stephen Hyde)
• Lecture course “Simulation methods for liquids (computational physics II)”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, winter semesters 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13.
• Lecture course “Molecular dynamics simulations of granular matter and finite element methods for mechanical properties ”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, summer semester 2009.
• Block course “Introduction to scientific programming in C/C++” (undergraduate level), 5 days full-time, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, I’ve designed this course and either taught this course or supervised postgraduate students teaching the course in all years from 2007 to 2014 (pdf of course announcement)
• Seminar course “Self-organisation and geometry of spatially complex matter”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, summer semester 2008.