Jenny Olander
About me
Director of the National Resource Centre for Chemistry Teachers (KRC), with the mission to support in-service teachers in primary school, secondary school and adult education. KRC was founded 1004 an since 2022 it is is part of the Department of Biochemistry and Bifophysics, DBB.
Much of KRC's activities involve networking and communication via the website, newsletter, e-mails and calls. We put a lot of focus on practical support in teaching and often it is about laboratory work and chemistry education.
Projekt
- The website chesse.org, about chemical safety in science education, was developed in an ERASMUS+ project 2020-2023 in collaboration with universities from Finland, Norway and Slovenia.
Teaching
- "Safety in Chemistry Education, 7,5 hp, UM4055", 2017-
- "Teaching Chemistry", PhD course at the Section of Chemistry, 2018 -
Previous employments
Before I started at KRC, I taught chemistry and mathematics for 10 years in upper secondary schools, mainly at Danderyds gymnasium. In 2003 I received my PhD in the Ångström Laboratory in Uppsala and then I did a postdoc at the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris.
Other
Member of the Nomenclature Committee, the Swedish Chemistry Society, 2017-