Dr. Malte Ubben

• Conceptual Development
• Mental models in Quantum Physics and Astrophysics
• Evaluation of psychological constructs in educational environments
• Untersuchung von Gelingensbedingungen und Herausforderung beim Einsatz von Smartphones in der Schule

• Erasmus+: Artistic Reality in School educaTion: enActed, Reflective and Collaborative learning with the Human orrery Space – ARISTARCHUS (2022 – 2025)
  EU-Project Hosted outside University of Münster: Agence Erasmus+ France / Education et Formation in France | Project Number: 2021-1-FR01-KA220-SCH-000032478
• smart for science – sfs (2019 – 2023)
  Participation in Federally Funded Joint Project: Joachim Herz Stiftung, Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt | Project Number: 01JD1827

• 2025
• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018

2025

• Laumann, D., Krause, M., Kremer, F.E., Leibrock, B., Ubben, M.S., Forthmann, B., Janzik, R., Masemann, D., Reer, F., Denz, C., Greefrath, G., Heinicke, S., Marohn, A., Quandt, T., Souvignier, E., and Heusler, S. 2025. “Mobile learning in the classroom – Should students bring mobile devices for learning, or should these be provided by schools?” Education and Information Technologies 30 (7): 9463–9496. doi: 10.1007/s10639-024-13213-w.

2024

• Krause, Maurice, Greefrath, Gilbert, Forthmann, Boris, Kremer, Fabienne E., Reer, Felix, Laumann, Daniel, Masemann, Dörthe, Denz, Cornelia, Heinicke, Susanne, Leibrock, Barbara, Marohn, Annette, Quandt, Thorsten, Souvignier, Elmar, Ubben, Malte, and Heusler, Stefan. 2024. “Effects of student-owned and provided mobile devices on mathematical modeling competence: investigating interaction effects with problematic smartphone use and fear of missing out.” Frontiers in Education 9 1167114. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1167114.
• Pusch, Alexander, Ubben, Malte S., Schlummer, Paul, and Welberg, Julia. 2024. Demonstrationsexperimente gestalten - Konzeption und Umsetzung in Theorie und Praxis Berlin: Springer Spektrum. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-68520-4.

2023

• Arshewizkij, Alexander, Schöneberg, Dennis, Schlummer, Paul, Ubben, Malte, and Pusch, Alexander. 2023. “How Does Our Solar System Work? Tracking Planetary Motion in the Classroom by Using Video Analysis in Astronomical Model Experiments.” Physics Teacher 61: 492–495. doi: 10.1119/5.0072740.
• Haverkamp, Nils, Pusch, Alexander, Schlummer, Paul, and Ubben, Malte. 2023. “Erzeugung zeitkritischer Frequenzsignale mit dem Arduino. Verbindung von Physik und Informatik im Schülerexperiment zum Kundt’schen Rohr aus dem 3D-Drucker mit Arduino-Betriebsgerät.” Der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Unterricht 2023 (2): 165–172.
• Küchemann, S.; Ubben, M.; Dzsotjan, D.; Mukhametov, S.; Weidner, C.; Qerimi, L.; Kuhn, J.; Heusler, S.; Sherson, J.. 2023. “The impact of an interactive visualization and simulation tool on learning quantum physics: Results of an eye-tracking study.” Physics Education 58. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.06286.
• Ubben, Malte S., Kremer, Fabienne E., Heinicke, Susanne, Marohn, Annette, and Heusler, Stefan. 2023. “Smartphone Usage in Science Education: A Systematic Literature Review.” Education Sciences 13 (4): 345. doi: 10.3390/educsci13040345.
• Henning, Fabian, Lipps, Maximilian, Ubben, Malte S., and Bitzenbauer, Philipp. 2023. “From the Big Bang to Life Beyond Earth: German Preservice Physics Teachers' Conceptions of Astronomy and the Nature of Science.” Education Sciences 13 (5): 475. doi: 10.3390/educsci13050475.
• Ubben, Malte, and Bitzenbauer, Philipp. 2023. “Exploring the relationship between students’ conceptual understanding and model thinking in quantum optics.” Frontiers in Quantum Science and Technology 2. doi: 10.3389/frqst.2023.1207619.
• Greinert, Franziska, Müller, Rainer, Bitzenbauer, Philipp, Ubben, Malte S., and Weber, Kim-Allessandro. 2023. “Future quantum workforce: Competences, requirements, and forecasts.” Physical Review. Physics Education Research 19 (1). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.010137.
• Ubben, Malte, Veith, Joaquin, Merzel, Avraham, and Bitzenbauer, Philipp. 2023. “Quantum science in a nutshell: fostering students' functional understanding of models.” Frontiers in Education 8. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1192708.

2022

• Arshewizkij, Alexander, Pusch, Alexander, and Ubben, Malte S. 2022. “AR Lineale - Astronomie und Planeten im Klassenzimmer.” in Beiträge zur DPG-Frühjahrstagung, edited by Helmut Grötzebauch and Susanne Heinicke. Bad Honnef.
• Karaki, Mohamad, Ubben, Malte S., Pusch, Alexander, Heusler, Stefan, Zahn, Corvin, and Kraus, Ute. 2022. “Raumkrümmung zum Anfassen – Sektormodelle aus dem 3D-Drucker.” Physik und Didaktik in Schule und Hochschule 1 (21).
• Ubben, Malte, Hartmann, Johanna, and Pusch, Alexander. 2022. “"Holes in the atmosphere of the universe" - An empirical qualitative study on mental models of students regarding black holes.” Astronomy Education Journal 2 (1). doi: 10.32374/AEJ.2022.2.1.029ra.
• Welberg, Julia, Ubben, Malte, Pusch, Alexander, and Heinicke, Susanne. 2022. “Diagramme - aber welche und wie? Diagramme geeignet auswählen und gestalten.” Naturwissenschaften im Unterricht Physik 33 (188): 26–27.
• Haverkamp, Nils, Schlummer, Paul, Ubben, Malte, and Pusch, Alexander. 2022. “Ultraschalllevitation als Zugang zu stehenden Wellen. Ein Low-Cost-Experimentieraufbau mit 3D-Druck Komponenten.” Der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Unterricht 1|2022: 14–18.
• Ubben, Malte, and Heusler, Stefan. 2022. “Visualisieren als Kulturgut.” Naturwissenschaften im Unterricht Physik 33 (188): 8–9.
• Krause, Maurice, Greefrath, Gilbert, Denz, Cornelia, Heinicke, Susanne, Heusler, Stefan, Janzik, Robin, Kramp, Bianca, Kremer, Fabienne E., Laumann, Daniel, Leibrock, Barbara, Marohn, Annette, Masemann, Dörthe, Quandt, Thorsten, Reer, Felix, Souvignier, Elmar, and Ubben, Malte. 2022. “BYOD vs pool: Effects on competence development and cognitive load.” in Proceedings of the Twelfth Congress of the European Research Society in Mathematics Education (CERME12), Vol. 12 of CERME Proceedings Series, edited by Jeremy Hodgen, Eirini Geraniou, Giorgio Bolondi and Federica Ferretti. Bozen-Bolzano, Italy: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
• Ubben, Malte S., and Bitzenbauer, Philipp. 2022. “Two Cognitive Dimensions of Students’ Mental Models in Science: Fidelity of Gestalt and Functional Fidelity.” Education Sciences 12 (3). doi: 10.3390/educsci12030163.
• Heusler, Stefan; Dür, Wolfgang; Ubben, Malte S. 2022. “Aspects of entropy in classical and in quantum physics.” Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 55 (40). doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/ac8f74.
• Laumann, Daniel; Ubben, Malte; Heinicke, Susanne; Heusler, Stefan. 2022. “Schüler- oder schuleigene Smartphones im Physikunterricht?” in Unsicherheit als Element von naturwissenschaftsbezogenen Bildungsprozessen, edited by Sebastian Habig and Helena van Vorst. Nürnberg: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik.

2021

• Pusch, Alexander, Ubben, Malte, Laumann, Daniel, Heinicke, Susanne, and Heusler, Stefan. 2021. “Real-time data acquisition using Arduino and phyphox: measuring the electrical power of solar panels in contexts of exposure to light in physics classroom.” Physics Education 56: 1–13. doi: 10.1088/1361-6552/abe993.
• Heusler, Stefan, Schlummer, Paul, and Ubben, Malte. 2021. “The Topological Origin of Quantum Randomness.” Symmetry 13 (4). doi: 10.3390/sym13040581.
• Laumann, Daniel, Kramp, Bianca, Pusch, Alexander, Ubben, Malte, Heusler, Stefan, and Heinicke, Susanne. 2021. “Eigene Smartphones im MINT-Unterricht – Gelingensbedingungen.” in Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht und Lehrerbildung im Umbruch?, edited by Habig S.. Essen: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik.
• Haverkamp, Nils, Havemann, Judith, Holz, Christoph, Ubben, Malte, Schlummer, Paul, and Pusch, Alexander. 2021. “A new implementation of Kundt’s tube: 3D-printed low-cost set-up using ultrasonic speakers.” Physics Education 56: 9.. doi: 10.1088/1361-6552/abd0d7.
• Heusler, Stefan Ubben Malte. 2021. “Quantentechnologien im Lehrplan. Welche Rolle sollten aktuelle Anwendungen der Quantenphysik in der Schule spielen?” Physik Journal 20: 86–89.

2020

• Heusler, Stefan, Schlummer, Paul, and Ubben, Malte. 2020. “A Knot Theoretic Extension of the Bloch Sphere Representation for Qubits in Hilbert Space and Its Application to Contextuality and Many-Worlds Theories.” Symmetry 12: 1135..
• Haverkamp, Nils, Holz, Christoph, Ubben, Malte, and Pusch, Alexander. 2020. “Measuring Wavelengths with LEGO® Bricks: Building a Michelson Interferometer for Quantitative Experiments.” Physics Teacher 58. doi: 10.1119/10.0002734.

2019

• Heusler, S., and Ubben, M. 2019. “A Haptic Model for the Quantum Phase of Fermions and Bosons in Hilbert Space Based on Knot Theory.” Symmetry 2019, 11(3) (426). doi: 10.3390/sym11030426.
• Holz, Christoph, Ubben, Malte, and Pusch, Alexander. 2019. “Wie tief kann’s noch sinken? Experimentelle Bestimmung des absoluten Nullpunktes mit einem digitalen Temperatur- und Drucksensor.” Naturwissenschaften im Unterricht Physik 171/172.
• Ubben, Malte Heusler Stefan. 2019. “Gestalt and Functionality as independent dimensions of mental models in science.” Research in Science Education 49: 1–15. doi: 10.1007/s11165-019-09892-y,2019.
• Heusler, Stefan Ubben Malte. 2019. “A Haptic Model of Entanglement, Gauge Symmetries and Minimal Interaction Based on Knot Theory.” Symmetry 11 (11): 1399.. doi: 10.3390/sym11111399.

2018

• Heusler, Stefan Ubben Malte. 2018. “Modelling spin.” European Journal of Physics 39 (6). doi: 10.1088/1361-6404/aae3ba.
• Ubben, Malte Heusler Stefan. 2018. “A haptic model of vibration modes in spherical geometry and its application in atomic physics, nuclear physics and beyond.” European Journal of Physics 39 (4). doi: 10.1088/1361-6404/aab9fd.
• Ubben, Malte Heusler Stefan. 2018. “Ein haptischer Zugang zu Moden von Kugelschwingungen.” contribution to the DPG Frühjahrstagung 2018, Würzburg