Activities
- Joint-Head of Centre for Teaching and Learning
Research
- Mathematical modeling and simulation in life sciences
- Agile and self-directed teaching and learning
- Use of visualization and digital tools for teaching, learning and assessment
- Integration of applications in teaching mathematics / contextualization of mathematics in life sciences
- Higher education didactic issues in the field of application-oriented mathematics education at universities of applied sciences
Memberships
- Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM)
- Schweizerische Mathematische Gesellschaft (SMG)
- Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV)
Professional career
Education
Julia Rausenberger studied mathematics, specialising in biomathematics, at the universities of Münster and Tübingen in Germany. She spent a year of her studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. She completed her PhD in systems biology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, after which she held a postdoctoral position at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, D-BSSE, at ETH Zurich in Basel.
In 2010, Julia joined the FHNW School of Life Sciences as a lecturer in mathematics, completing training in higher education didactics at the University of Basel as well as visual facilitation training with bikablo in Cologne, Germany. In recogintion of her commitment to innovative and engaging teaching, she was awarded the Teaching Award of the FHNW School of Life Sciences in both 2017 and 2019.
Since 2020, she has been professor of applied mathematics in the life sciences, serving as Joint Head of Education alongside Lilian Gilgen since September 2023.
Her research focuses on mathematical modelling and simulation in the life sciences, as well as agile, digitally supported teaching and learning methods in higher education in this sector. Alongside teaching mathematics in the BSc Life Sciences programme, she lectures on higher education didactics for teaching staff.