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