Kompetansekatalog, matematiske fag

Name

Background, research areas, and fields of interest

Abrahamsen, Trond
Associate professor
Dr. scient.

Background: Mathematics education,
Fields of interest: Mathematical analysis, functional analysis, geometry of Banach spaces.

Bekken, Otto B.
Emeritus
PhD

History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM),
History of Norwegian Mathematics:
Hauk Erlendsson, Frederich Christian Holberg Arentz, Caspar Wessel and Niels Henrik Abel,
Abel, Bolzano & Cauchy and Foundations of the Calculus

Berg, Claire V.
Researcher
Cand. scient

Mathematics education

Billington, Mary
Research Fellow
Cand. scient

Mathematics education

Birkeland, Byrge
Associate professor
Cand. real.

Mathematics, computer science, computer graphics, numerical mathematics, mathematics programming, mathematics software

Birkeland, Per Arne
Assistant professor
Cand. scient.

Mathematics education. Mathematics in primary school.

Bjorvand, Siri
Assistant professor
Cand.scient.

Background in mathematics and computing. Research areas in programming and teaching. Interest: Programming.

Bjørkestøl, Kirsten
Associate professor
dr.scient.

Background, research areas and field of interest:
Multivariate statistics, applied mixture problems, statistical optimisation in multistep processes, methods in meta analysis.

Borgersen, Hans Erik
Associate professor
Cand.real.

Algebra, Geometry, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Cooperations in small groups, Cognitive Development and The affective domain.

Breiteig, Trygve
Professor emeritus
Cand. real.

Mathematical education.
Pupils' concepts in mathematics 13-16. Use of interactive software in geometry. Textbooks for secondary level. Responsibility for own mathematics learning. Curriculum design for teachers education in mathematics; Number theory, geometry.

Brodahl, Cornelia
Assistant professor
Cand.scient.

Mathematics and informatics education. ICT in teacher education. Use of ICT in education.

Carlsen, Martin
Associate professor
PhD

Mathematics education. Cooperation and communication in small groups.

Cestari, Maria Luiza
Professor
Dr. philos.

Communication in mathematics classrooms, multiplication and division, difficulties in mathematics, multicultural classrooms, collaborative working groups.

Erfjord, Ingvald
Associate professor
PhD

Mathematics education. Mathematics in primary school.

Hildegunn Espeland
Research Fellow
Master Math ed

Mathematics education.

Fuglestad, Anne Berit
Professor
PhD

Mathematics, mathematics education, informatics, use of computers in mathematics teaching. ICT in teacher education. Research in mathematics education, use of computers in teaching mathematics.

Grevholm, Barbro E.
Professor
Docent, fil.lic.

Background: Mathematics. Research areas: The use of technology in mathematics teaching and learning, problem-solving, gender aspects and teacher students' development of concepts.

Goodchild, Simon.
Professor
PhD

Mathematics in school and teacher education. Theories of learning and teaching mathematics. Mathematics classroom research and research methodology. Mathematics teaching development.

Hadjerrouit, Said
Associate professor
Dr. ing.

Research areas and professional interests:

Informatics education, mathematics education, didactics of informatics,practical ICT didactics, ICT in teacher education, Web-based learningsystems, E-Learning, pedagogical software, software engineering, Webengineering, object-oriented design and programming with Java.

Web site: http://home.uia.no/saidh

Hundeland, Per Sigurd
Assistant professor
Cand.scient

Mathematics education. Mathematics in primary school.

Kristjánsdóttir, Anna
Professor
Cand.paed.

Use of powerful technology for learning such as web based material and videoconferencing. Beliefs about mathematics and learning mathematics held outside schools. The history of mathematics education. Long term research on skills and attitudes in mathematics learning. Creation of powerful learning environments for teachers of mathematics and their professional development.

Knutson, Inger Johanne Håland
Associate professor
PhD

Mathematical analysis, recurrence in ergodic theory, uniform distribution of sequences.

Knutson, Peder
Assistant Professor
Cand. scient.

Mathematics (complex analysis). Teaching courses both in mathematics and mathematics education.
Research area: mathematics education.
Research for a PhD (1999-2000): Teacher training course (ethnography, discourse analysis)

Lima, Åsvald
Professor emeritus
Dr. philos.

Mathematical analysis, functional analysis and geometry of Banach spaces
Use of computers in mathematical teaching and research.

Hege Marie Mandt
Reserch Fellow
Master Math ed

Mathematics education.

Nygaard, Olav
Associate professor
Dr. scient.

Geometry in Banach spaces, barrelled normed spaces, function algebras.

Nossum, Rolf Tomas
Professor
Dr. scient.

Mechanized deduction, programming languages, logic programming, executable temporal logic, logics of knowledge and action, formal models of context, didactics of mathematics and computer science.

Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard
Professor
Dr. rer. nat. habil.

History of Mathematics and natural sciences, especially applied mathematics, functional analysis, function theory, science during National Socialism, philosophy of science.

Storesletten, Leiv
Professor Emeritus
Dr. philos.

Applied mathematics and fluid mechanics.
Research expertise in hydrodynamic stability, thermal convection, boundary layer flow and heat and mass transfer in porous media.

Venheim, Rolf
Emeritus
Cand. real.

Mathematics in teacher education, curriculum development, didactics, geometry