Birgit Loch
Birgit Ilka Loch is a German and Australian mathematician, scholar of mathematics education, and academic administrator, the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning & Teaching and the Institute of Education, Arts and Community at Federation University Australia. Her research expertise is in education technology for mathematics.[1]
Education and career
[edit]After a 1999 diploma in mathematics at the University of Essen in Germany, Loch continued her education in Australia, completing a Ph.D. in computational mathematics in 2004 at the University of Queensland.[1] Her doctoral dissertation, Surface Fitting for the Modelling of Plant Leaves, was jointly supervised by John Belward and James Hanan.[2]
She worked as a lecturer, senior lecturer, and Principal Advisor Learning and Teaching at the University of Southern Queensland, and then from 2010 to 2016 as Academic Director Digital Learning and Technologies and head of the Maths and Stats Help Centre at the Swinburne University of Technology. From 2017 until 2021 she was affiliated with the La Trobe University College of Science, Health and Engineering, as Chair of Teaching and Learning, associate pro vice chancellor for coursework, and deputy provost for learning and teaching. In 2021 she became dean of the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law at the University of New England (Australia),[3] and in 2024 she took her present position at Federation University Australia.[4]
Recognition
[edit]Loch is a Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society.[3] She was a recipient of the Australian federal government's 2016 Awards for Teaching Excellence in the physical and related sciences.[5] In 2020 she received an Advance HE Principal Fellowship.[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Professor Birgit Loch, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Teaching and the Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Federation University Australia, retrieved 2026-08-25
- ↑ Birgit Loch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- 1 2 "Professor Birgit Loch", All experts, La Trobe University, retrieved 2026-08-25
- ↑ "Professor Birgit Loch", Staff profiles, University of New England, retrieved 2026-08-25
- ↑ National teaching awards for dynamic duo, Flinders University, 5 December 2016, retrieved 2026-08-25
- ↑ Advance HE recognises contributions to learning and teaching, La Trobe University, 22 October 2020, retrieved 2026-08-25
External links
[edit]- Birgit Loch publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- German emigrants to Australia
- Mathematics educators
- Australian mathematicians
- Australian women mathematicians
- University of Duisburg-Essen alumni
- University of Queensland alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Southern Queensland
- Academic staff of Swinburne University of Technology
- Academic staff of La Trobe University
- Academic staff of the University of New England (Australia)
- Academic staff of Federation University Australia