Melanie Keller

„In my research at KielSCN, I am interested in understanding how we can engage audiences with emotional visualizations. Doing so, I will use a mixed-methods approach and a combination of laboratory and field studies.“

IPN – Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
Junior Principal Investigator

E-Mail: mkeller@kielscn.de
Telephone: +49 431-880 4058
Website

• since 2016: PostDoc at the Department of Physics Education at IPN – Leibniz-Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
• 11/2019 – 12/2019: Visiting Scholar with Prof. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari at the Technion in Haifa, Israel
• 2015 – 2016 Senior Scientist at the School of Education at the University of Salzburg
• 2010 – 2015: PostDoc at the Department of Empirical Educational Research at the University of Konstanz
• 03/2012 – 04/2012 and 10/2009 – 12/2009: Visiting Scholar with Dr. Anita Hoy at the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at The Ohio State University, USA
• 2011: Doctorate in Physics Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• 2007: Diploma in Physics at the University of Würzburg

• Golumbic, Y., Dalyot, K., Barel Ben-David, Y., & Keller, M. (2022). Establishing an Everyday Scientific Reasoning Scale to Learn How Non-scientists Reason with Science. Public Understanding of Science.
• Hilger, K. J.E., Scheibe, S., Frenzel, A. C., & Keller, M. M. (2021). Exceptional circumstances: Changes in teachers’ work characteristics and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown. School Psychology, 36(6), 516–532.
• Keller, M. M., & Becker, E. S. (2020). Teachers’ emotions and emotional authenticity: Do they matter to students’ emotional responses in the classroom? Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 1-19.
• *Goetz, T., *Keller, M. M., Lüdtke, O., Nett, U. E., & Lipnevich, A. A. (2019). The dynamics of real-time classroom emotions: Appraisals mediate the relation between students’ perceptions of teaching and their emotions. Journal of Educational Psychology. [*Authors contributed equally]
• Steegh, A. M., Höffler, T. N., Keller, M. M., & Parchmann, I. (2019). Gender differences in mathematics and science competitions: A systematic review. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 74(5), 269.

• Publication Award of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF) for „Feeling and Showing: A new conceptualization of dispositional teacher enthusiasm and its relation to student interest“ published in Learning and Instruction (2015)
• 2007 – 2010: Stipendiate at the DFG Graduate School and Research Group „Teaching and Learning of Science“