My goal is to catalyze students’ active involvement in their physics learning, foster their agency and creativity, and shape their disciplinary identity. The teaching modality I use focuses on an adapted version of Just In Time Teaching, interactive examples, in-class discussions, and staggered projects (including “essays”).

Introduction to Biological Physics

The course focuses on learning how to use statistical mechanics and fluid dynamics to explain the behavior of molecules and cells in the nanoscale. I use Phil Nelson’s textbook (I tried a couple of times Rob Phillips et al.). The audience of the course includes biomedical physics majors, physics majors, biological physics minors.

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

The focus of the course is on classical thermal physics. I have used the textbook by Gould et al and also the texbook by Schroeder.

Computational Physics

In the most recent iteration, I used computational essays as end of course project to assess holistically student growth. I have used the textbook by Mark Newman and also the textbook by Landau, Paez & Bordeianu.