Co-Directors

Professor of school education, Director Tübingen School of Education

Thorsten Bohl's research interests are primarily in the area of classroom and school research. 

Thorsten Bohl's Website

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.

Michael Derntl's Website

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).

Peter Gerjets' Website

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.

Tilman Gocht's Website

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.

Bernd Grewe's Website

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.

Jessica Heesen's Website

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. 

Anne Hermann-Werner's Website

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.

Patrick Klügel's Website

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.

Ulrich Trautwein's Website