Selected Presentations

• Concept maps for teaching and learning, a network-based perspective on understanding and knowledge, Geophysical Physical Institute Annual Meeting, Os (NO), 2025
• A network-based perspective on understanding and knowledge in STEM: implications for research and teaching, SERG seminar, Bergen (NO), 2025
• Applying network analysis to expert conceptualisations of Type-2 Diabetes: investigating knowledge structures in medical science with a pilot study, ESERA, Copenhagen (DK), 2025
• Improving students’ programming skills through Collaborative Scientific Python, MNT, Trondheim (NO), 2025
• Quantifying expertise, identifying misconceptions and other results from graph analysis in educational research, NERA 2025, Helsinki (FI), 2025
• What does the research say? ​Effective strategies for teaching and learning in geosciences​, iEarth GeoLearning Forum, Tromsø (NO), 2024 (with M. Weurlander, C. Faber, R. Horota & K. Dunnett)
• Researching and developing geoscience education in Norway: iEarth as a national centre to improve teaching and learning, Samtal@SU - Geoscience, Stockholm (SE), 2024 (with K. Dunnett & C. Faber)
• Exploring cloud physics with graph theory, ECER, Nicosia (CY), 2024
• Exploring cloud physics through graph theory, ETHZ Atmospheric Physics group meeting, Zürich (CH), 2024
• Exploring cloud physics through graph theory (in french), ARDiST scientific colloquium, Montpellier (FR), 2024
• Exploring cloud physics through graph theory, KUPER group meeting, Copenhagen (DK), 2024
• Web of geophysical knowledge, CHESS research school Annual Meeting, Oslo (NO), 2023
• Representing and analysing the conceptual understanding of cloud physics, ESERA, Cappadocia (TR), 2023
• Supporting student Python fluency using git-based solutions, UoE Geoscience Education Day, Edinburgh (UK), 2023
• Enhancing the sense of belonging at a Norwegian faculty of natural sciences, UiB Læringskonferanse, Bergen (NO), 2023
• Science session: Cryosphere and sea level (chair), CHESS research school Annual Meeting, Tromsø (NO), 2022
• Cloud physics, a framework for studying, instruction and analysis, AAPT-PERC, Grand Rapids (USA), 2022
• Ice-ice collisions and wave energy dissipation in the marginal ice zone, AOCEC project meeting, St. John's (CA), 2019

Selected Posters

• What does Science mean? Geoscientists' associations with Science, iEarth GeoLearning Forum, Bergen (NO), 2025
• What does Science mean? Climate experts' associations with Science, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research Annual Meeting, Bergen (NO), 2025
• Representing and analysing expert knowledge in climate science: a method to quantify expertise and understanding using graph theory, Arctic Frontiers, Tromsø (NO), 2025
• Improving the students' programming skills through collaborative scientific python, UiB Læringskonferanse, Bergen (NO), 2024
• Exploring climate science through graph theory, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research Annual Meeting, Bergen (NO), 2024
• Exploring cloud physics through graph theory, ESERA Summerschool 2024, Tartu (EE), 2024
• Levels of understanding of students in cloud microphysics, CHESS research school Annual Meeting, Tromsø (NO), 2022
• Students' conceptual understanding in cloud microphysics: a concept map for studying, instruction and analysis, AAPT-PERC, Grand Rapids (USA), 2022
• Knowledge transfer of mathematical concepts for geophysics students, CHESS research school Annual Meeting, Bergen (NO), 2021

Selected Symposiums

• Network analysis in science education research: analysing opinions, concepts and representations to inform learning and instruction (chair), ESERA, Copenhagen (DK), 2025 (with O. Marshall, C. Thurn, S. Wagner & M. Turkkila)

Invited Peer Reviews

• Nordic Journal of STEM Education, 1x manuscript, 2024
• Textbook on Cloud Physics, 3x chapters (Atmospheric Radiations, Thermodynamics, Warm Clouds Microphysics), 2024
• ESERA, 6x oral presentations, 3x symposia, since 2023

What graph theory can teach us about learning: the case of Cloud Physics, GFI teachers meeting, Bergen (NO), 2025

An all-in-one framework to support student Python fluency at GFI with Jupyter notebooks, GFI teachers meeting, Bergen (NO), 2023 (with V. Dundas)

A small glacier model to talk about friction, dynamics and climate change, interactive science station at the Ice Music Festival, Ål (NO), 2023

Global climate changes and local consequences on Longyearbyen, Svalbard (in french), Leysin en Transition summer conferences, Leysin (CH), 2020

Supervision

Co-supervision of S. Sherbetjian for the bachelor thesis 3D visualisations of complex graph networks on a web platform, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 2025

Instruction

Collaborative Scientific Programming, leader of a new extra GFI course on Scientific Python using a Git-based framework, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, 2024

Physics of the Atmosphere and Ocean, teaching assistant responsible for the exercises, laboratory and cruise projects relating to oceanography, lectures on mathematical and meteorological concepts, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, 2021-2023

Climate Action, Global Solutions to Local Problems, invited lecturer to the workshop The Role of Climate Scientists in Society, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, 2022

Workshop

How can we increase the sense of belonging at our institute?, 2-days concept-mapping and think-pair-share workshop sessions with faculty and staff at the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, 2025

The influence of fatigue on learning, roundtable discussion moderation at the iEarth GeoLearning Forum, Bergen (NO), 2025

Weihs, J.-P., Euler, E., Gjerde, V., & Drange, H. (2025). Exploration of Troublesome and Threshold Concepts in Cloud Microphysics. Journal of Geoscience Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2024.2446022 

Weihs, J.-P., & Drange, H. (2025). Représenter et analyser la compréhension conceptuelle de la physique des nuages à l'aide de la théorie des graphes. In V. Munier & M Bächtold (Eds.), Actes des XIIIe Rencontres scientifiques de l'ARDIST, 4-7 juin 2024, Montpellier (p. 97-112). Éditions de l'ARDIST. https://ardist2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Actes_13e_Rencontres_ARDiST.pdf

Weihs, J.-P. & Lid, D.O. (2025). Improving students’ programming skills through Collaborative Scientific Python. In R. Lyng & S. Cotner (Eds.), Conference proceedings - MNT-konferansen 2025. Nordic Journal of STEM Education. 9(2): 383-390. https://doi.org/10.5324/njsteme.v9i2.6403.

Weihs, J-P., Weihs, A., Gjerde, V., & Drange, H. (in review) Unsupervised and semi-supervised clustering methods to identify and refine participant experience levels in educational research. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06479 (preprint)

Weihs, J.-P., Gjerde, V., & Drange, H. (in review). From Novice to Expert in Cloud Physics: a Graph-Based Analysis of Learner Conceptual Understanding. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06479 (preprint)

Gya, R., Boge, C., Dahl, T., Bergstrøm-Hansen, N., Førland, O., Holtermann, K., Stabell, E., Weihs, J.-P., et al. (submitted) From student involvement to students-as-partners – evidence from nine Norwegian Centres for Excellence in Education

Manuscripts in preparation:

• Weihs, J.-P., Gjerde, V., & Drange, H. Identifying Misconceptions and Tailoring Learning Recommendations using Graph Theory.
• Weihs, J.-P., & Sherbetjian, S. 3D visualisations of complex graph networks on a web platform.
• Weihs, J.-P., Dunnett, K., Horota, R., Faber, C., & Weurlander, M. Effective Teaching and Learning Strategies in Geosciences.
• Weihs, J.-P., Tywoniuk, K., Valero-Rodiguez, J.M., & Bettencourt, J.P.H. 'I will survive': Enhancing the Sense of Belonging in Academic Communities.
• Weihs, J.-P. Ethics of Sustainability in a Geoscience Field-Based Course.
• Ramesh, H., Weihs, J.-P., & Madan, G. 'Blown away': Impact of Zonal Winds Changes on Agricultural Yield Forecasts

Unpublished work:

Weihs, J.-P. (2019). Interaction of surface waves with sea-ice in the marginal ice zone. NTNU. https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2634446/no.ntnu:inspera:43157182:37763738.pdf (Master's thesis)

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