PhD scholarship in university students’ learning via digital twins of neutron scattering instruments - DTU Energy

Job description

Are you passionate about how to train university students for neutron-based investigation at the European Spallation Source in Lund? Do you want to research how students learn via digital twins to replace hands-on training? Do you want to engage in a career within didactics of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education? This PhD project is a part of the ACCESS project, Augmenting the STEM classroom by ESS digital twins. The ACCESS project is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, and it is a collaboration between DTU – Technical University of Denmark, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and European Spallation Source. The European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund (SE) is a future large-scale research facility for neutron-based investigation of materials in a broad sense. The aim of this PhD project is to research what university students from both DTU and UCPH learn from using digital twins of ESS instruments. What knowledge, skills, and competences do students acquire from using digital twins? How can engagement with digital twin instruments prepare students for using the actual instruments? To which extent can digital twins replace hands-on training? The overall...