Dr. Christoph Hoyer
Group Leader XR in Physics Education
Faculty of Physics
Office address:
Theresienstraße 37
Room A015
80333 Munich
Areas of work/research
Christoph Hoyer is researching the extent to which physics learning can be supported by augmented and virtual reality technologies. To this end, the working group develops applications for physics lessons and then examines their learning effectiveness in empirical studies. The central question here is how these new technologies can be used profitably in physics lessons. For more detailed insights into the processes involved in experimentation, the focus is also on examining process data. For example, eye-tracking data will be used to analyze the learning processes more precisely. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Short biography
Christoph Hoyer is an academic advisor at the Chair of Didactics of Physics at LMU Munich, Germany.
He studied physics as well as mathematics and physics for secondary school teachers at LMU Munich. Since 2016 he has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Physics Education at LMU Munich. In 2021, he received his doctorate from the Faculty of Physics at LMU Munich with the distinction "summa cum laude". His research focuses on physics learning with new media, especially using multiple external representations.
Since 2022, he has headed the junior research group on physics learning in virtual and augmented reality at the newly structured Chair of Didactics of Physics at LMU Munich under Prof. Dr. Jochen Kuhn.