Who is Magnus?
Well, that's me on the right. 😊 This is how I look on a beautiful summer day at our summer house in Blekinge. And this is how I look when I flash my biggest smile at the person holding the camera. The person behind the camera happens to be my beloved Anna. The rest of the family consists of Fredrika, Lovisa, and Hjalmar, our Labrador Retriever Newton, and our cats Pasteur and Curie.
Work
Since August 10, 2016, I’ve held a position as a high school lecturer in chemistry and biology at Gymnasieskolan Spyken here in Lund. I’m deeply committed to using the flipped classroom model as a pedagogical approach, and I also lead several successful collaborations with LTH (Lund University of Technology) and SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences). Both teachers and students are welcome to visit my teaching pages!
In addition to teaching, I also write textbooks. I have written or co-authored several educational resources (listed in alphabetical order):
- Biologi 1 (NA Förlag), a textbook for the high school Biology 1 course.
- Bioteknik - från DNA till protein (Studentlitteratur, with Linda Ekenstierna).
- Insikt – Biologi 1 (with Lena Brynhildsen and Henrik Brändén).
- Katalys kemi 1 (Gleerups), a digital educational resource + book for the high school Chemistry 1 course.
- Katalys kemi 2 (Gleerups), a digital educational resource + book for the high school Chemistry 2 course.
- Kemi 1 (NA Publishing), a textbook for the high school Chemistry 1 course.
- Kemi 2 (NA Publishing), the continuation of "Chemistry 1": A textbook for the high school Chemistry 2 course.
- Naturligtvis 1a1 (Gleerups), a digital educational resource for the high school Natural Science 1a1 course.
- Naturligtvis 1b (Gleerups), a digital educational resource for the high school Natural Science 1b course.
- Naturligtvis 2 (Gleerups), a digital educational resource for the high school Natural Science 2 course.
- Projektarbete 100p - Experimentboken (Studentlitteratur, with Krister Andersson Brolin).
- Repetitionskurs i kemi (Studentlitteratur), a "crash course" in chemistry.
- Studiegajden (Apple iBook)
A CV will be available soon via this link.
Other stuff
Apart from that, I must say that music and singing have played a big role in my life. I have revived my old synth interest with the site ME Music (link coming soon), where I publish the music I create as a hobby.
I have also been singing in choirs since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I started in Eva Bohlin’s boys’ choir Cantarellerna (now the Lund Cathedral Boys' Choir) in the early 1980s and continued through her youth choirs up to the Lund Student Singers (whose website I managed for most of the 1990s). Nowadays, I sing in the Lund Cathedral Choir. The now-defunct Double Quartet I Gossar Blå (IGB), where I also sang, mostly functions as a lively group of friends, as does the single septet ERNST, with which we even recorded an album. "Singing in quartet rocks!"