As a teacher, my personal teaching philosophy is simple. I believe in open communication, good materials and easy to approach atmosphere. In every course, instead of filling the students’ minds with mountains of information, the aim is to deliver 5 to 6 main outcomes, the ones they will remember when woken up at 3 AM. These will be covered with details, but the aim is to deliver deeper learning experiences for the main topics and broaden the view over important things to know but not essential to spend hours with -they can later on go find the sources and deepen the understanding if necessary.

My way of working is visual. As a student, I need frames to fill with small details. Therefore, I often use figures to deliver information and deepen the understanding through the theories, which can be written, and lectured in front of students in the classroom or via videos.

Figure 1. This is an example of a visualisation that can be used to explain the essence of 3D imaging. 3D imaging can be addressed through mathematical formulas, or we can ease the learning a little by giving an educative visualisation before diving deeper to the algorithm.

Figure 2. A highly dimensional hyperspectral (HS) data cube can be difficult to understand. The challenge arises when we add 3D to HS data cube. This visualisation can ease the students understanding over the dimensionalities.

Above is an example of the visualisations I have drawn for the students (Figures 1 and 2). It reflects my teaching statement, which is built from the strategy:

My teaching portfolio contains six topics, which are introduced as follows:

Teaching goals for the next five years
Strategic teaching development experience
Visiting lectures and presentations
Current teaching, courses that I teach
Thesis sprint – a new tool for speeding up theses work, an example of creating my teaching
My career goals and teaching, what I wish to do