Margaret Wegener

Dr. Margaret Wegener is a Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Queensland's School of Mathematics and Physics, where she also serves as First-Year Teaching Director. She teaches both physics majors and service courses, focusing on contextualizing physics fundamentals and improving transitions between school and university education. Her PhD research involved laser diagnostics of superorbital gas flows using holographic interferometry.

Her educational research specializes in:

• Developing active learning strategies for large classes
• Creating immersive virtual reality experiences for abstract physics concepts
• Designing inquiry-based laboratory experiments
• Bridging science and art through interdisciplinary pedagogy
• Implementing e-learning modules for lecture preparation

Dr. Wegener's recent publications emphasize optics education, virtual reality pedagogy, and art-science integration, with consistent output in physics education research since 2014. She has secured competitive teaching grants and contributes to curriculum development at national levels through physics education standards.

She is available for student supervision and has developed undergraduate experiments to make physics fundamentals meaningful. Her interdisciplinary work includes collaborations across mathematics, science communication, and visual arts.