Teaching & Outreach

I enjoy explaining technical ideas and helping people with very different backgrounds make sense of mathematics, physics, and computing. Over the past years I have worked with adult learners in vocational education and with school pupils who need extra support in mathematics. This page summarises my main teaching and outreach activities.

Teaching philosophy

In my teaching I aim to:

• connect abstract concepts to concrete examples and applications,
  
• encourage students to articulate their own reasoning rather than just reproduce procedures, and
  
• make students comfortable with asking questions and admitting confusion.

This applies both to adult learners in evening courses and to school pupils in small-group settings.

Adult education

Werkmeisterschule (Wirtschaftsförderungsinstitut Niederösterreich)

Instructor for adult education, St Pölten, AT — Sept 2022 – June 2025

At the Werkmeisterschule, I taught working professionals in a vocational setting.

• Taught adult learners as an instructor in natural sciences and office software.
  
• Designed and delivered courses on Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and basic scientific concepts.

These courses combined practical skills (office software, data handling) with conceptual understanding of scientific topics, and they required balancing different levels of prior knowledge in the same classroom.

School pupils and learning support

Municipal learning-aid programme “Lernhilfe” (Wiener Volkshochschulen)

Instructor, Vienna, AT — Oct 2023 – Jan 2024

As part of the city’s Lernhilfe programme, I taught mathematics to school pupils who needed additional support.

• Taught a mathematics course for young pupils as part of the municipal Lernhilfe learning-aid programme.
  
• Reinforced core school mathematics and prepared pupils for school assessments.

The focus was on building confidence with basic techniques and helping pupils link procedures to underlying concepts.

Tutoring and intensive courses (LernQuadrat)

Tutor, Vienna, AT — May 2022 – Aug 2022

At LernQuadrat, I worked with pupils one-on-one and in small groups.

• Tutored pupils in mathematics in individual and small-group settings, including intensive courses.
  
• Covered the full range of lower- and upper-secondary school mathematics in preparation for exams.

This experience taught me how to quickly diagnose misconceptions, adapt explanations to different students, and structure short, focused sessions.

Relation to my research interests

My research interests are in quantum computing and quantum information, AI and mechanistic interpretability. Teaching has influenced how I think about these topics:

• Explaining mathematics and scientific concepts to non-experts helps me practice clear, layered explanations, which is essential when communicating technical research.
  
• Working with pupils and adult learners keeps me aware of the difference between knowing a procedure and understanding a concept, a distinction that also matters when analysing what machine learning models have actually learned.

In a future PhD, I would be happy to contribute to teaching at the undergraduate level (mathematics, computer science, physics, or related topics) and to outreach activities that make quantum computing and AI more accessible.