Co-Directors
Andreas Lachner
Professor of Educational Science, Co-Director of TüCeDE
Andreas Lachner investigates the effectiveness of educational technology and the professional development of teachers in the context of educational technology.
Detmar Meurers
Professor of Computational Linguistics, Co-Director of TüCeDE, Head of lab "Language and AI in Education" at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien
Detmar Meurers focuses his work on computational linguistic methods in research on educational and second language acquisition and is involved in the Cluster of Excellence Machine Learning for Science.
Steering Board
The TüCeDE Steering Board consists of eleven scientists, each of whom represents an institution within TüCeDE. This diversity gives the steering board access to comprehensive interdisciplinary expertise to advise the co-directors on the operational design and strategic development of TüCeDE.
Thorsten Bohl
Professor of school education, Director Tübingen School of Education
Thorsten Bohl's research interests are primarily in the area of classroom and school research.
Michael Derntl
Head of the Dr. Eberle Zentrum, Head of the Digital Humanities Center
Michael Derntl seeks to advance the use of digital tools and methods in teaching and research across disciplines at the University of Tübingen.
Peter Gerjets
Professor for Empirical Teaching-Learning Research, Head of the Multimodal Interaction Research Group at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), Board Member of the LEAD Network.
Peter Gerjets is interested in the design and optimization of innovative digital learning opportunities for in-school and out-of-school contexts (e.g. multi-touch environments, virtual realities) as well as in the use of Artificial Intelligence in educational contexts (e.g. sensor-based real-time capture of learner states for adaptive learning environments, creativity tools).
Tilman Gocht
Managing Director of the Cluster of Excellence Machine Learning for Science
Tilman Gocht has been working in science management since 2010 and is primarily interested in strategy development and the internal organization of large collaborative research projects.
Bernd Grewe
Professor of History Didactics, Head of the Institute for History Didactics and Public History
Bernd Grewe is interested in how historical education can be designed and improved with the help of digital media (www.historischer-augenblick.de). To this end, he is developing his own digital learning media: www.offene-geschichte.de.
Jessica Heesen
Head of the Research Focus Media Ethics and Information Technology at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW).
Jessica Heesen's research focuses, among other things, on questions of media literacy in a digital society, children's safety in online communication, children's right to privacy and self-determination in digital (learning) environments, and an ethics of artificial intelligence.
Anne Hermann-Werner
Professor of Medical Education, Senior Physician, Teaching Physician
Anne Herrmann-Werner holds the unique professorship for Medical Education with a focus on medical didactics. In addition, she is the director of TIME - Tübingen Institute for Medical Education, which was founded in July 2022 and comprises the interdisciplinary training and simulation center DocLab, the area of medical education research and the competence center for university didactics in medicine.
Patrick Klügel
Public Engagement Manager
Patrick Klügel coordinates, among other things, the AI Makerspace in addition to the public engagement strategy of the AI research network Cyber Valley.
Ulrich Trautwein
Director of the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, Co-Director LEAD
Digital tools play a central role in Ulrich Trautwein's research on issues including educational effectiveness, teaching quality, motivation and personality, and gifted education.
