Christopher Robin Samuelsson
Postdoctoral position at Department of Physics and Astronomy; Physics Education Research
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 35 44, +46 72 999 93 74
- E-mail:
- christopher.robin.samuelsson@physics.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Regementsvägen 10
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 516
751 20 UPPSALA
Postdoctoral position at Trade Unions and Student Unions; Staff Unions
Postdoctoral position at Trade Unions and Student Unions; Staff Unions; Saco-S vid Uppsala universitet
- Visiting address:
- Thunbergsvägen 7A
- Postal address:
- Box 533
751 21 UPPSALA
Visiting teacher at Department of Education
- E-mail:
- christopher.robin.samuelsson@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1 A
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 2136
750 02 Uppsala
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-3070-567X
Short presentation
My research concerns tech-based education (AI and IR cameras), Direct Instruction, problem solving and reasoning i physics education (temporal and spatial scales, phase transitions) and teacher education.
As a researcher in DBER, I'm mostly interested in teaching and learning in physics, mathematics and physical chemistry.
Biography
I am currently doing research in physics didactics with a focus on teacher and engineering education, AI and education, and active learning and inquiry-based labs. My PhD research has mainly focused on students' reasoning (which intuitions/exemplars students use), communication (which talk types students use) and practice (the equipment the students use) that is productive in laboratory teaching that involves phase transitions and/or calorimetry. Several of my studies have concerned students' use of thermal imaging cameras in laboratory sessions in physics and chemistry. I have a background as a high school teacher in chemistry and mathematics (as well as a bachelor's and master's degree in applied mathematics) and as a student I co-founded the teachers' science association (LärNat) at Uppsala University. Before that, I also studied at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research and co-founded ICRG to organize bachelor's students at the department. The basic idea of LärNat (and also ICRG) was that the association (now a section association of the student union) would serve as a platform for community and collaboration between student teachers in the natural sciences (teacher students are students at the TekNat faculty). My interest in educational issues within the teacher program, more specifically what is given at the subject departments as subject didactic teaching, as well as a previous work in chemistry didactics, motivated me to apply for a doctoral position in subject didactics at TekNat.
Research
My research current research focus on teacher and engineering education, AI and education, and active learning and labs of different degrees of freedom in instructions. In addition, I explore how students' reasoning when encountering phenomena involving phase transitions can be explained through cognitive models.
I was a member of the research school in subject education at Uppsala University (UpRiSE).

Publications
Selection of publications
Förberedande uppdrag om nya kursplaner i ämnet fysik
2026
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2025
2025
Preparing PhD students for the doctoral defense with generative AI
2024
2023
Critical thinking in national tests across four subjects in Swedish compulsory school
Part of Education Inquiry, p. 56-75, 2019
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Recent publications
Förberedande uppdrag om nya kursplaner i ämnet fysik
2026
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The Cyborg Educator: Playful Co-Creation of Learning Activities with AI
2025
2025
Identifying epistemic games in pre-service teachers' engagement with spatial scales
2025
Embodied AI?: Exploring GenAI's role in physics lab design
2025
All publications
Articles in journal
Looking for solutions: students' use of infrared cameras in calorimetry labs
Part of Chemistry Education Research and Practice, p. 299-311, 2023
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Going through a phase: Infrared cameras in a teaching sequence on evaporation and condensation
Part of American Journal of Physics, p. 577-582, 2019
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Hot vision: Affordances of infrared cameras in investigating thermal phenomena
Part of Designs for Learning, p. 1-15, 2019
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Critical thinking in national tests across four subjects in Swedish compulsory school
Part of Education Inquiry, p. 56-75, 2019
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Chapters in book
Research on educational use of thermal cameras in science: A review
Part of Thermal Cameras in Science Education, Springer Nature, 2022
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Comprehensive licentiate thesis
Conference papers
The Cyborg Educator: Playful Co-Creation of Learning Activities with AI
2025
2025
Identifying epistemic games in pre-service teachers' engagement with spatial scales
2025
Embodied AI?: Exploring GenAI's role in physics lab design
2025
2025
Preparing PhD students for the doctoral defense with generative AI
2024
Att dra nytta av studenters produktiva associationer
2023
2023
Productive resources in science education: The case of adding salt to ice
2022
Productive epistemic games in an Investigative Science Learning Environment
Part of Recueil des résumés, p. 18-19, 2022
Transitioning into a discipline – exemplars as cognitive resources in learning physics
2021
Resources and barriers in reasoning
2021
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Using infrared cameras in physics and chemistry education
2018
2018
2018
Looking for solutions: University chemistry and physics students interacting with infrared cameras
2017
Användning av värmekameror vid öppna laborationer
2016