Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology

Ph.D. Program

The Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology offers its doctoral students intensive supervision and excellent research opportunities as well as the integration into the structured doctoral program of the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network.

Completed doctorates

  • Katharina Totter (April 2026)
  • Katrin Kunz (February 2026)
  • Xenia Stein (December 2025)
  • Aki Schumacher (September 2025)
  • Hannah Deininger (July 2025)
  • Julia-Kim Walther (May 2025)
  • Lucas Stark (April 2025)
  • Alexander Jung (April 2025)
  • Wy Ming  Lin (February 2025)
  • Tosca Daltoè (geb. Panetta) (February 2025)
  • Patrizia Bieber (January 2025)
  • Fitore Morina (August 2024)
  • Anna Bareis (Juli 2024)
  • Philipp Stark (Juli 2024)
  • Babette Bühler (June 2024)
  • Joseph Ferdinand (November 2023)
  • Lisa Zachrich (October 2022)
  • Johanna Marder (March 2022)
  • Thomas Gfrörer (December 2021)
  • Lisa Hasenbein (December 2021)
  • Yeeun Kim (December 2021)
  • Ann-Kathrin Jaekel (July 2021)
  • Ömer Sümer (February 2021)
  • Katerina Tsarava (February 2021)
  • Luzia Leifheit (December 2020)
  • Xian Cheng (December 2020)
  • Moritz Fleischmann (December 2020)
  • Molly Hammer (November 2020)
  • Fabian Ruth (November 2020)
  • Patricia Goldberg (October 2020)
  • Cora Parrisius (October 2020)
  • Laura Braun (July 2020)
  • Fabian Lang (September 2019)
  • Nele Usslepp (September 2019)
  • Heide Piesch (July 2019)
  • Cansu Atlay (April 2019)
  • Adam Ayaita (December 2018)
  • Brigitte Brisson (June 2018)
  • Jan-Erik Schmidt (June 2018)
  • Sven Rieger (January 2018)
  • Franziska Rebholz (January 2018)
  • Eike Wille (November 2017)
  • Nicolas Hübner (October 2017)
  • Michael Grosz (July 2017)
  • Miriam Weich (June 2017)
  • Evelin Herbein (January 2017)
  • Julia Schiefer (January 2017)
  • Juliane Kant (January 2017)
  • Thomas Lösch (January 2017)
  • Sandra Rothenbusch (December 2016)
  • Isabelle Häfner (December 2015)
  • Katharina Allgaier (November 2015)
  • Maike Sigel (June 2015)
  • Deborah Schnabel (May 2015)
  • Hanna Gaspard (March 2015)
  • Christiane Bertram (March 2015)
  • Sandra Moroni (February 2015)
  • Heike Itzek-Greulich (December 2014)
  • Jessica Kornmann (November 2014)
  • Richard Göllner (May 2014)
  • Alena Friedrich (February 2014)
  • Sarah Werth (November 2014)
  • Anna-Lena Dicke (May 2013)
  • Hanna Dumont (April 2012)

Awards and Prizes

Future Education Early Career Award, 2025Babette Bühler
Dissertation Award of the Division of Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment (DPPD), 2025Benjamin Goecke
Cooperation Scholarship of the Division of Educational Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), 2025Hannah Deininger
Best Poster Award at the conference „Arts Engagement and Aesthetic Experience – Bridging the Gap between Arts and Science“, 2025Gayatri Nerpagar
Award of the European Association of Psychological Assessment (EAPA), 2025Benjamin Goecke
AERA Division C Graduate Student Poster Award, 2025Alexander Jung
Dissertation Award of the Tübingen School of Education (TüSE), 2023Lisa Zachrich
Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, 2022Hayley Jach
Poster Award of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF), 2022Ines Pieronczyk
J.S. Tanaka Personality Dissertation Award, 2021Hayley Jach
JSPS Prize of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2020Michiko Sakaki
NEPS Poster Award, 2020Tim Fütterer
NEPS Publication Award, 2020Nicolas Hübner
Young Scientist Award Scopus Elsevier Early Career Researcher UK Award, 2020Lisa Bardach
Dissertation Award of the Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, 2020Lisa Bardach
Young Scientist Award of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik (dghd), 2020Maja Flaig
Young Scientist Award of the Fachgruppe Pädagogische Psychologie of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), 2019Cora Parrisius
Doctoral Award of the Rector for the Department of Economics of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Tübingen, 2019Adam Ayaita
Paul Pintrich Memorial Award of the Motivation in Education Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2019Cora Parrisius
Dissertation Award of the Tübingen School of Education (TüSE), 2018Nicolas Hübner
PhD Thesis Award of the European Association of Psychological Assessment (EAPA), 2017André Kretzschmar
Doctoral Award of the Rector for the Department of Social Sciences of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Tübingen, 2016Deborah Schnabel
Young Researcher Award for Educational Research of the Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung (SGBF), 2016Sandra Moroni
Poster prize at the 2. Dortmunder Symposium der Empirischen Bildungsforschung, 2016Julia Schiefer
Poster award at the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), 2016Sven Rieger
Young Scientist Award of the Fachgruppe Pädagogische Psychologie of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), 2015Isabelle Häfner
SELF PhD Award des Global SELF Research Networks, awarded at the 8. SELF Biennial International Conference in Kiel, 2015Hanna Gaspard
Gustav A. Lienert Prize (dissertation prize) of the Methods and Evaluation Division of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), 2015Holger Brandt
Award for the best presentation at the conference "Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences" in York (GB), 2014Evelin Herbein & Julia Schiefer
Prize for the best poster at the conference "Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences" in York (GB), 2014Verena Hoehne
Poster award at the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), 2014Verena Hoehne
Doctoral Award of the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, 2013Eunike Wetzel
Gustav A. Lienert Prize (dissertation prize) of the Methods and Evaluation Division of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), 2012Norman Rose
Doctoral Award of the Rector for the Department of Social Sciences of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Tübingen, 2012Hanna Dumont