Vita
Professional Experience and Employment
- Postdoctoral research associate at the Chair for Teaching and Learning with Digital Media, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich (TUM), since April 2023
- Doctoral research associate at the Chair for Teaching and Learning with Digital Media, TUM School of Education, Technical University of Munich (TUM), May 2018 - April 2023
Education
- Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany, May 2018 - April 2023 (Dissertation: “Scaffolding Self-Regulated Learning with Advanced Learning Technologies: Laying the Groundwork and Testing Effects of Personalized Scaffolds”)
- Master’s degree (M.Ed.) in Research in Teaching and Learning at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, October 2015- April 2018 (Thesis: “Metacognitive Prompting and Reading Behavior during Self-Regulated Learning”)
- Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment at the Singapore Workforce Development Agency, April 2015 - July 2015
- Certificate in the specialization area: “Autism”, at the Autism Resource Centre, Singapore, June 2012- November 2012
- Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in Psychology at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, August 2007- September 2010
Course-related employments
- Research assistant at the Chair for Teaching and Learning with Digital Media, TUM School of Education, October 2016- March 2018
- Research assistant at the Psychological Assessment and Research Branch, and Technologies and Design for Learning Branch (Educational Technology Division) in the Ministry of Education, Singapore, September 2010- February 2011
Academic Roles & Memberships
- Reviewer for journals and conferences: Metacognition and Learning , Computers in Human Behavior, British Journal of Educational Technology, JURE , EARLI , LAK
- Member of EARLI (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction), EARLI Special Interest Group 16 (Metacognition), EARLI Special Interest Group 27 (Online Measures of Learning Processes), SoLAR (Society for Learning Analytics Research)
Teaching Activities
Instructor for the Master’s program: Research in Teaching and Learning
“Selected Issues in Educational Research” (2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2021/2022, 2022/2023)
“Planning and Implementation of Research Works in Classroom Research II” (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
"Active Reading Strategy" (2023/2024)
Supervision of theses and research internships
- Lia Lissmann (2023, Bachelor Thesis: “Investigating how students learn with adaptive scaffolds in an online learning environment”)
- Shayla Giap (2022, Master Thesis: “Adaptive Scaffolds to Support Students' Self-Regulated Learning in E-Learning Environments: a Systematic Review”)
- Yi-Yen Huang (2022, Master Thesis: “Does Attention Relate to Performance? --The Eye Movement During Reading and Writing”; Internship Project: “Webcam-based eye tracking for field studies”)
- Mahdi Gholami (2019/2020, Internship Project: “Automatic and computer-assisted content analysis of essays”)
- Efthymia Petridou (2019, Internship Project: “Using mouse movements and eye tracking to investigate interaction with rapid assessment tasks”)