Team

Prof. Dr. Tina Seidel has held the Friedl Schöller Endowed Chair of Educational Psychology at the Technical University of Munich since 2010. Important research contributions include research on digital educational technologies such as simulations for university teaching, the development of professional vision among teachers at schools and universities, video analyses of teaching-learning interactions, as well as meta-analyses and evidence-based teaching. She is currently Director of the TUM Center for Educational Technologies, where she heads the Evidence in Practice unit and the Clearing House Unterricht. She has also been deputy spokesperson for the DFG research group Cosima from 2017-2024. She is a member of the Aktionsrat Bildung since 2015.

+49 (89) 289 25118
Room 423
sek.paedpsych(at)sot.tum.de

Gabriele Melion is secretary/office manager at the Friedl Schöller Endowed Chair of Educational Psychology at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. Since April 2023, she has been the point of contact for general questions about the professorship and is responsible for secretarial services. She is in charge of managing and controlling the financial resources, plans and books business trips for the professorship holder and the corresponding travel expense claims, and handles preparatory personnel matters for the professorship.

+49 (89) 289 25124
Room 421
beguem.arvaneh(at)tum.de
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4537-1932

Begüm Arvaneh is a research assistant at the Friedl Schöller-Endowed Chair for Teaching and Learning Research at the TUM School of Education. Since April 2024 she has been working as a project coordinator for Clearing House Unterricht. 
As part of her dissertation project, Begüm Arvaneh is focusing on the use of digital media in the classroom and the reflective skills of trainee teachers.                                                                                                                                                                                                   

+49 (89) 289 24631
Room 420
Anastasia.asiedu(at)tum.de 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5174-1705

Anastasia Asiedu is a research associate at the Friedl Schöller Endowed Chair of Educational Psychology at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. From 2021 to 2023, she was involved in the Clearing House Teaching project and supported the work of the Clearing House Academy and the Research Group. She is currently working in the Digi ProMIN project, embedded in the learning:digital competence network. As part of her dissertation project, Anastasia Asiedu is working on the topic of interventions for emotional intelligence in education.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

+49 (89) 289 25151
Room 426
ricardo.boeheim@tum.de 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2905-848X
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+49 (89) 289 25119
Room 427
meg.farrell(at)tum.de
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4034-6017 

Maximilian Knogler is a senior researcher and faculty member at the Friedl Schöller Endowed Chair for Educational Psychology.

Maximilian Knogler graduated from the University of Munich and the University College Dublin with a degree in School Psychology and English. After finishing his Ph.D. with excellence at the TUM School of Education in 2014, he spent a semester at the lab of Prof. Judith Harackiewicz in the Psychology Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Between 2015 and 2021 he coordinated the first Clearing House project with a focus on effective teaching and learning to strengthen evidence-based teacher education.

In his research, he uses intervention studies, design-based approaches und research syntheses to identify effective factors for supporting students’ motivation and learning. His work connects research with the development of innovative and evidence-based learning environments for students and teachers. For his work in research and development he received several awards (e.g. EARLI, AERA, ISAGA).

+49 (89) 289 25183
Room 421
christian.kosel(at)tum.de
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4857-4148

From March 2017 to May 2021, Christian Kosel worked as a research assistant and Ph.D. student with Prof. Dr. Tina Seidel at the Chair of Educational Psychology at the Technische Universität München. In May 2021, he received his Ph.D. from the TUM School of Education with a thesis on the visual expertise of teachers (grade: summa cum laude). Since May 2021, he has continued his research as a postdoctoral researcher and is working on his habilitation. Before coming to the Technische Universität München, he studied sociology and statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. His current research focuses on the analysis of complex eye movement patterns and other process-based data (e.g. emotions) collected under both laboratory and natural conditions. In addition, he is working on the methodological development of eye-tracking analysis procedures to increase their accuracy and potential applications in psychological research.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

+49 (89) 289 24245
Room 420
fabian.reinwarth(at)tum.de
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2400-9771

Fabian Reinwarth has been a research assistant at the Friedl Schöller Endowed Chair in Educational Psychology since 2024. 
In his dissertation project, Fabian Reinwarth is investigating how scientific evidence needs to be processed efficiently in order to be effectively received by teachers, and how teachers cognitively process received evidence and transfer it into thinking and action in the classroom. At the same time, he works in the transfer centre and in the teaching clearinghouse of the competence network lernen:digital.

From October 2013 to February 2016, she completed a Bachelor's degree in Education with a minor in Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. From October 2016 to February 2019 she also completed a Master's degree in Education with a focus on Educational Research and Educational Management at the LMU. From May 2019 to December 2019 project coordinator of the mentoring programme of the LMU Medical School at the Institute for Didactics and Educational Research in Medicine. Since January 2020 Research Assistant at the Chair of Teaching and Learning with Digital Media at the TUM School of Education. Since October 2024 Sabrina Reith works as a research assistant at the Friedl Schöller Endowed Chair of Educational Psychology and coordinates the Clearing House Academy.
As part of her dissertation project, she is working on the promotion of self-regulated learning with digital media.

+49 (89) 289 25151
Room 426
annika.schneeweiss(at)tum.de

Annika Schneeweiss is a research assistant and coordinator of the TUM Center for Educational Technologies. Initially, she worked as a press officer for various publishers. From December 2016 to June 2022, she was Editorial Manager and Science Communicator in the BMBF-funded Clearing House Unterricht sub-project as part of the Quality Offensive Teacher Education. Additionally, from January 2020 to June 2022, Annika Schneeweiss coordinated the multimedia STEM learning platform Toolbox Lehrerbildung.                                                                                                                   

Dr Katharina Willis has been a research associate at the Friedl Schöller Endowed Chair of Educational Psychology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2013 and is currently working at the TUM Center for Educational Technologies. She was previously involved in the BilWiss-Beruf project, which focuses on the development of professional teaching perception among teachers at the beginning of their careers.
Katharina Willis studied Sports, Media and Communication at TUM and at Hawaii Pacific University in the USA. As an external doctoral candidate at the Chair of Sports Psychology, she received the TUM Doctoral Scholarship for Women in Research and Teaching. At the same time, she completed an Executive MBA in Innovation & Business Creation at UnternehmerTUM and UC Berkeley (USA). Here she received the Degree² scholarship from the Graduate School. In her dissertation (2009–2013), she examined the effects of problem-based teaching and learning in a field experiment. In this experimental control group design with pre-/post-measurement, she analysed the movement quality and teamwork skills of girls aged 6 to 13 years using video data.