Complexity in Science Education

Tom Bielik is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Science Education at Radboud University.His research focuses on supporting the development of teachers’ and students’ systems thinking, modeling competence, and critical thinking by engaging with model-based inquiry learning, project-based learning, and digital modeling tools such as SageModeler. Bielik received his B.Sc. from the Department of Agriculture at the Hebrew University in Israel and his M.Sc. from the Department of Cell Research and Immunology at Tel Aviv University in Israel. His PhD thesis was achieved at the Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where he also received a teaching certificate in high-school biology. He was also a post-doctoral research associate at CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University, Michigan, USA and at the Biology Didactics Department at Freie University in Berlin, Germany.