Vita

Professional Experience and Employment

  • Professor for Teaching and Learning with Digital Media, Dep. Educational Sciences, TUM School of Social Science and Technology (former TUM School of Education), Technical University of Munich / TUM, Germany (since October 2015)
  • Professor at the Susanne Klatten Endowed Chair for Teaching and Learning with Digital Media, TUM School of Education, Technical University of Munich / TUM, Germany (April 2018 - December 2020)
  • Professor for Instructional Media, Department of Human-Computer-Media, University of Wuerzburg, Germany (April 2011 - September 2015)
  • Professor for Educational Media, Department of Education and Philosophy, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (October 2004 - April 2011)
  • Deputyship as Professor of Educational Psychology, Teacher Training College Heidelberg, Germany (November 2003 - September 2004)
  • “Wissenschaftliche Assistentin” (similar to an assistant professor) Faculty of Psychology, Department of General and Educational Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau (March 1998 - November 2003)
  • Head of the Research Group “New Technologies” at the Centre of Educational Research (ZepF), University of Koblenz-Landau (April 1996 - February 1998)
  • Scientific Assistant at the Centre of Educational Research (ZepF), University of Koblenz-Landau (April 1991 - February 1998)
  • Freelancer at the IBM Scientific Centre Heidelberg, Germany, Advanced Information Management/Software Ergonomics (August 1989 - March 1991)
     

Education

  • Habilitation (rights to teach as professor at German universities) at the University of Koblenz-Landau (July 2004)
  • PhD in Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau (with “summa cum laude”) (June 1996)
  • Part-time Course in Adult Education at the University of Education - Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten (January 1998 - June 1999)
  • Visiting PhD-Student at the Department of Communication Studies, TEMA, University of Linköping, Sweden, (June 1995 - July 1995)
  • Studies in Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, finished with a "Diplom" (March 1991), comparable to a Masters by Research
  • School education in Germany
     

Scholarships and Prizes

  • Award for the BMBF project "Berufliches immersives Training für Inklusion" as one of the ten innovative prize winners in the innovation competition of the initiative "Deutschland- Land der Ideen", May 2019
  • Visiting Professor at the McGill University, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, Montreal, Canada, May 2018 - June 2018
  • Visiting Professor at the McGill University, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, Montreal, Canada, April 2013 - Sept. 2013
  • Visiting Professor (funded by the DFG) at the McGill University, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, Montreal, Canada, May 2013 - July 2013
  • Visiting Scholar (funded by the DFG) at the CoCo Research Centre (Computer-Supported Learning and Cognition), Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia, Sept. 2008 - March 2009
  • Travel funds for the Second Meeting of EARLI SIG16 Metacognition, Cambridge, UK, 2006
  • Junior Scientist at the research programme “Learning in Humans and Machines” funded by the European Science Foundation“ /ESF, Strasbourg (July 1994 - October 1997)
  • Award for the “best dissertation” at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau in 1996
     

Academic Roles

  • Vice Dean Research & Innovation at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich (TUM), since 2021
  • Vice Dean Research at the TUM School of Education, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 2021
  • Member of the Faculty Board, Technical University of Munich, since October 2018
  • Member Examinations Board Master Research on Teaching and Learning, Technical University of Munich (TUM), since November 2016
  • Affiliate Professor at the TUM Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, since November 2016
  • Vice Dean at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Wuerzburg, 2013 - 2015
  • Member of the Faculty Board, University of Wuerzburg, 2013 - 2015
  • Board Member of the Ethics Committee at the Department of Human-Computer-Media, 2015
  • Member of the HRK-Audit "Internationalisierung der Hochschulen", University of Wuerzburg, 2014 - 2015
  • Member of the Planning Committee, University of Wuerzburg, 2013 - 2015
  • Mentor in the Mentoring Program, University of Wuerzburg, 2012 - 2014
  • Member of the Equality Commission, University of Wuerzburg, 2012 - 2015
  • Affiliate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wuerzburg, 2011-2015
  • Deputy member of the Landesbildungsrat des Freistaates Sachsens / LBR, 2007 - 2011
  • Consultant for corporate e-learning projects
  • Advisory board activity: BayernCloud Schule / ByCS, Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus, since 2022
  • Reviewer for the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, since 2020
  • Reviewer for the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, since 2012
  • Reviewer for the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF), since 2010
  • Reviewer for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), since 2006
  • Evaluation Committee: AVRiL 2021 Prize of the Stifterverband for successful VR/AR learning scenarios
  • Evaluation Committee: AVRiL 2020 Prize of the Stifterverband for successful VR/AR learning scenarios
  • Advisory board activity: BMAS joint project "Nutzung KI-basierter Assistenz- und Wissensdienste in unternehmensspezifischen Bildungsräumen unter Berücksichtigung heterogener Wertewelten im Demographischen Wandel - NAWID", since 2019
  • Member of the jury: Research programme of the Robert Bosch Foundation "Wissenschaft-Praxis-Kooperationen für Unterrichtskonzepte mit digitalen Medien", since 2018
  • Trust lecturer of the Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw), 2006 - 2011
  • Advisory Board: Around an Inspiring Virtual Learning World in Eighty Days, European Commission funded IT R&D project on Game-Based Learning, Framework 7, 2008 - 2009
     
  • Program-Committee: LAK 2024 - 14th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, Kyoto, Japan
  • Program-Committee: VR/AR Learning 2021 - 4th Workshop within the DELFI & HDI 2021, Potsdam, Germany
  • Program-Committee: LAK 2021 - 11th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, Newport Beach, CA, USA
  • Program-Committee: LAK 2020 - 10th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Reviewer-Committee: 51ter Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Universität Frankfurt, 2018
  • Reviewer-Committee: VS GAMES 2018 - 10th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications, Würzburg, Germany
  • Reviewer-Committee: 8th Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group 16 Metacognition, Zürich, Switzerland, 2018
  • Reviewer-Committee:16th Fachgruppentagung Pädagogische Psychologie, University of Münster, 2017
  • Reviewer-Committee: 7th Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group 16 Metacognition, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2016
  • Reviewer-Committee: 50te Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie / DGPs, Universität Leipzig, 2015
  • Reviewer-Committee: 15te Fachgruppentagung Pädagogische Psychologie, Universität Kassel, 2015
  • Reviewer-Committee: 9te Fachgruppentagung Medienpsychologie, University of Tuebingen, 2015
  • Reviewer-Committee: 6th Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group 16 Metacognition, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014
  • Reviewer-Committee: 8te Fachgruppentagung Medienpsychologie, University of Wuerzburg, 2013
  • Reviewer Committee Joint Meeting of EARLI SIG 6 (Instructional Science) and EARLI SIG 7 (Learning and Instruction with Computers), 2010
  • Programm Committee Member: International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Rhodos, 2009
  • Program Committee: Special Track on Intelligent Assistance for Self-Directed and Organizational Learning / IWL-LOKMOL Graz, 2008
  • Reviewer Committee: Media Psychology, TU Dresden, 2007
     
  • Guest Editor: Temporal and adaptive processes of regulated learning - what can multimodal data tell? Learning and Instruction, 2019
  • Guest Editor: New Perspectives on Integrating Self-Regulated Learning at School in Education Research International, 2012
  • Editorial Board Member: Metacognition and Learning, since 2012
  • Editorial Board Member: Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (RPTEL), since 2011
  • Consulting board: International Journal of Computers in Human Behavior, since 2005
  • Assistant Editor: International Journal Learning and Instruction, 2002 - 2003
  • Co-Editor of the book series “Lernen mit Neuen Medien” published by Huber, 2001 - 2005
  • Editorial board: Empirische Pädagogik, 1991 - 2005
  • Program and Organisation Committee: “8te Fachtagung Pädagogische Psychologie”, 2001
     

Reviewer for national and international scientific journals

  • Applied Cognitive Psychology, Behavior & Information Technology, Behavior Research Methods, CSCL 2009, Educational Psychologist, Empirische Pädagogik, European Journal of Psychology of Education, Instructional Science, International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning, Journal of Educational Computing Research, Journal of Learning Analytics, Journal for Educational Research Online, Learning and Instruction, Memory & Cognition, Metacognition and Learning, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Unterrichtswissenschaft, Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie
     

Memberships

  • American Educational Research Association (AERA)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs, FG: Medienpsychologie, Pädagogische Psychologie)
  • Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)
  • European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI, SIG: Instructional Design, Metacognition)
  • Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
  • Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft (GMW)
  • National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition (NCIC)
  • Supporting Active Learning and Technological Innovation in Science Education (SALTISE)
  • The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)