Dr. Charlotte Müller

Charlotte Müller obtained a bachelor degree in chemistry and molecular sciences at the University of Bern, followed by a master degree in computational science at the University of Zurich. During her masters, she specialized in computational chemistry. She was an INSPIRE Potentials - MARVEL Master’s fellow between October 2018 and March 2019, an initiative found to support women in computational science for the duration of their master thesis.

Charlotte conducted her doctoral work under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Manu Kapur and Prof. Dr. Markus Reiher at ETH Zurich between February 2020 and September 2023. Her project, which lied at the intersection of theoretical chemistry and learning sciences, was funded by the Future Learning Initiative. Specifically, she explored how receiving haptic feedback in the form of resistance or attraction may provide opportunities for the students to construct meaningful metaphors and hence facilitate learning of complex quantum chemical concepts.

Since November 2023, Charlotte works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship for Learning and Instruction of Prof. Dr. Martina Rau. Building on her doctoral work, she is interested in how imperceptible concepts are understood metaphorically and how language and visual as well as haptic representations may support or hinder the successful construction of such metaphors.