I am Kata Sebök, currently working as a postdoc at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna.

My academic interests include

• (Preservice mathematics teachers') relationships with mathematics

• Challenges and opportunities of teaching mathematics in university (teacher training)

• Epistemology and sociology of the learning and teaching of mathematics

• Philosophy (including ethics) of teaching as well as of research involving teachers and learners

• History and philosophy of science of mathematics education research

In my doctoral thesis (available online here), I looked into the following question: "Can preservice mathematics teachers be trained to become more aware of mathematical aspects of typical teacher tasks and can this awareness retrospectively lead to a greater appreciation of their university-level mathematics education?"

After considering my results, I became interested in approaching the multi-layered phenomenon of preservice teachers' relationships with (university-level) mathematics both more broadly (by adopting a less hypothesis-driven, explorative stance) as well as more closely (by using less reductive, qualitative methods).

Following this new aim has opened up a wide range of relevant fields of study (see above) many of which I have just started scratching the surface of. I warmly invite anybody who thinks about similar topics and would like to exchange ideas or has any reading recommendations to contact me.