Robert Gunnarsson

Vice Dean of Education
Dean's Office , School of Education and Communication
Assistant Professor of Physics
Department of Natural and Social Sciences , School of Education and Communication
Associate Professor of Physics
Head of Subject Mathematics and Natural Sciences Didactics
Presentation

Research

My current research is primarily within Mathematics and Science Education Research. But I also still find interest in physics, particularly solid-state physics and phenomena in magnetic materials

I am active in the Mathematics Education Research group (MER-gruppen) at JU.

Within mathematics education research, I primarily work with issues in the intersection between arithmetic and algebra. I am particularly curious about in what ways students evaluate numerical expressions and how they describe and perceive the processes the use. I also have a great interest in Variation theory of learning – an area where the MER-group is particularly prominent.

Biography

PhD 2004 at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Postdoc at Chalmers and at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Since 2007 working at School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University (JU).

Associate professor (docent) in 2015.

Responsible for mathematics and physics in the teacher programmes at JU.

Program director for Foundational year in natural sciences from 2014 to 2018.

Vice President for education at JU from 2018 to 2024.

Vice MD with a focus on education at the School of Educatin and Communication since 2025