Silke Ruwisch

Professor Silke Ruwisch is a faculty member in the Faculty of Education at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where she holds the Chair of Mathematics and its Didactics. She has held academic positions at TU Dortmund University, Justus Liebig University Giessen, and the University of Cologne.

• Doctorate in Mathematics Education (Dr. rer. nat.) from Justus Liebig University Giessen (1998)
• Master's in Sociology (1990) and Practical Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (1997)
• Diploma in Remedial and Special Education (1989)

Her research focuses on early mathematical learning, including spatial imagination, reasoning and argumentation in elementary school geometry, stochastic reasoning, and inclusive mathematics teaching. She develops learning environments and investigates conditions promoting or hindering mathematical knowledge construction in preschool and elementary school children.

As a supervisor, she has guided doctoral students such as Imke Ahrens, Dana Farina Weiher, Stephanie Schmid, Marieke Vogt, and others, covering topics ranging from estimation strategies to spatial perspective-taking and additive word problems.

She is based at the Institute for Mathematics and its Didactics (IMD) at Leuphana University, located at Universitätsallee 1, C16.012, Lüneburg, Germany.