Prof. Dr. Matthias Alke
Professorship of Educational Science specialising in adult education/continuing education

Matthias Alke researches the effects of digital transformation in adult and continuing education, focusing particularly on digital governance, management, and digital education marketing by providers.

Management of the TüCeDE

Iris Backfisch organises and coordinates the projects of TüCeDE and is the contact person for young academics and public relations.

Dr. Gulzat Baialieva graduated with a diploma from the Pedagogical Institute at Bishkek State University (Kyrgyzstan), where she trained in linguistics as an English teacher and accumulated years of teaching experience. She then obtained a diploma in Political Science from Central European University in Hungary. With extensive research experience at universities in Italy and the USA, she later earned a doctoral degree from Tübingen University, specializing in Social Anthropology and Digital Ethnography.

Professor of Emprical Cultural Studies

Christoph Bareither's research and teaching focuses on the ethnographic analysis of digital everyday cultures, combining the perspectives of Empirical Cultural Studies (EKW) with those of Digital Anthropology.

Director Tübingen School of Education

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

Professor for Economic Education

In her research, Taiga Brahm investigates the development of subject-specific and interdisciplinary competencies of learners in different educational institutions. She is interested in the possibilities and effects of digitization in schools and universities.

Birgit Brucker is the scientific coordinator of the Mixed Reality and Multi-Touch Labs in the Future Innovation Space at the IWM. Her research focuses on how visualisations and innovative interaction media (e.g. virtual realities and multi-touch tables) improve understanding in various content areas, as well as on the potentials and risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing scenarios.

Junior Professor for the Didactics of Physics

Jan-Philipp Burde is particularly interested in electricity theory, context orientation and digital media in physics education. 

Director of the Leibniz-Institute für Wissensmedien (IWM), Co-Director LEAD

Ulrike Cress conducts research on media-supported learning and knowledge communication in learning and information environments and is a member of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (SWK).

Kateryna Derkach is a Postoctoral Researcher at the TEIFUN Postdoc-Kolleg (Technology-supported innovations in subject-specific teaching settings) working on the technology-assisted development of listening skills in foreign language learners. She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition) from the University of Cambridge, as well as experience in teaching English and in publishing English Language Teaching materials.

Head of the Dr. Eberle Center, Head of the Digital Humanities Center

Miachel Derntl seeks to advance the use of digital tools and methods in teaching and research across disciplines at the University of Tübingen.

Thérése Eder investigates how digital tools can be used in education, especially in the field of assessment and computer-based feedback. She uses process-oriented data (e.g., eye and emotion tracking) to record cognitive and affective-motivational outcomes.

Professor at the Chair of Romance Philology (Literary Studies)

Armin Fabian is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hector Institute for Empirical Educational Research. His research focuses on the professional knowledge of mathematics teachers for the effective use of digital media and the professionalization of teachers, for example as part of the project ALIFE.

Professor of German Philology and Didactics of German Literature

Carolin Führer is interested in aesthetic learning in a post-digital world as well as digital didactics of reading and writing.

Tim Fütterer is a post-doc at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology.

His research interests relate to the professionalization of teachers and links (online) teacher professional development, digitization and digitality, applied artificial intelligence in educational contexts, teaching effectiveness, and teachers’ reflections.

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).

Managing Director of the Cluster of Excellence Machine Learning for Science

Tilman Gocht has been working in science management since 2010 and is mainly interested in strategy development and internal organization of large collaborative research projects.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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Research Associate at the Presentation Skills Research Unit at the Research Centre for Science Communication.
Her research focuses on promoting the presentation skills of students in lower and upper secondary schools and the conditions for successful knowledge and science communication from a rhetorical perspective.

Professor of Educational Science, Head of the Center for Research and Transfer: Digitization in Teacher Education (TüDiLB)

Andreas Lachner investigates the effectiveness of educational technology and the professional development of teachers in the context of educational technology.

Postdoc at the Seminar for General Rhetoric

Carmen Lipphardt's research and work areas include rhetorical evidentialisation techniques, presentation rhetoric and the promotion of presentation skills, and rhetoric and presentation in the educational system.

Professor of Computational Linguistics, Co-Director of TüCeDE, Head of lab "Language and AI in Education" at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien

The research of Detmar Meurers focuses on the analysis of language and the development of AI-methods that support academic and second language teaching and learning.

Professor of Educational Psychology

He works in the field of motivation science, doing empirical research to answer the fundamental question both in basic science and applied disciplines: "Where do our motivation come from?".

Professor of Mathematics and its Didactics

Walther Paravicini is interested in digital formats for mathematically gifted students, for mathematically challenged students - for example in vocational education - and also for future mathematics teachers.

Senior Academic Counsellor, Didactics of Classics (Latin and Greek) at the Philological Seminar.

His interests include the use of digital media for improving the classroom experience for both learners and teachers.

Research Associate at TüCeDE, Transfer and Professionalisation Unit. 

Dr Quixal's focus is on developing materials and strategies to promote a co-constructive dialogue between schools and research institutions and to facilitate the transfer of research findings into school practice.

Professor for the Didactics of Biology

Using digital media in outdoor biology to combine classroom activities with extracurricular learning is one of Christoph Randler's areas of interest.

Nicole Rieber is a psychologist and media scientist and works as Senior Project Manager for the Berghof Foundation.

In her work, she focuses on digital peace education, particularly in phenomena like mis- and disinformation, hate speech and conspiracy theories, and what influence those have on individuals and (democratic) societies.

Postdoc for Economic Education and Economic Didactics 

Malte Ring's research interests include the assessment and modelling of competences in dealing with economic representations, the effect of support measures with regard to the understanding of (multiple) representations and the support of student teachers in developing high-quality explanatory videos for teaching economics.

Postdoctoral researcher and habilitation candidate in School Pedagogy at the Institute of Education

Heike Russ' research focuses on teaching quality, adaptivity, and dealing with heterogeneity in the school system. In the field of learning research, she works on generative learning and retrieval practice.

Postdoc in the Presentation Research Unit at the Research Center for Science Communication.

His research focuses on secondary school students' presentation competence (i.e., how to present with digital media in STEM subjects) and teachers' professionalism in the project Youth Presents. Fabian Ruth investigates the implementation and effectiveness of digitally supported teaching-learning arrangements in students' and teacher trainings.

Coordinator of the AI Makerspace

Caroline Schmidt coordinates activities within the Federal Artificial Intelligence Competition and the AI Makerspace. 

Postdoc at the Institute for History Didactics and Public History

Sabrina Schmitz-Zerres´ research focuses on historical and (history) didactic textbook research, digital historical learning, and the theory of historical consciousness and historical culture(s).

Professor of Adult Education/Further Education, Scientific Director/Board Member of the German Institute for Adult Education

Anne Schüler is the deputy head of the Multiple Representations lab at the IWM.

Her research focuses on the cognitive foundations of learning with digital multimedia learning environments. Additionally, she investigates instructional strategies for addressing misconceptions and cognitive biases in the processing of digital information.

Stephan Schwan is head of the Realistic Depictions lab and Deputy Director of the IWM and member of the executive board of the foundation “Medien in der Bildung”.

His research focus is on cognitive processing and comprehension of dynamic audiovisual media and the role of digitial media and authentic objects and places for informal learning.

Professor of Educational Science with a focus on school pedagogy.

Marcus Syring is interested in diversity and heterogeneity in classrooms and schools as well as in the didactics of digital learning.

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.

Nina Udvardi-Lakos is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hector Institute for Empirical Educational Research. Her research interests are cognitive load and mental effort in learning, self-regulated learning, dealing with (dis)information online, and the use of adaptivity to promote learning, for example within teacher training programmes as part of the ALIFE project (https://alife.academy).

Professor of Islamic Religious Education, Head of the Institute for Islamic Religious Education Research. 

Fahimah Ulfat focuses her research on VR experiences related to Holocaust education.

Assistant Professor for Learning and Instruction at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology

Luise von Keyserlingk uses multiple data sources to better understand how motivation, self-regulated learning, and contextual factors contribute to successful learning and performance of students.

Professor of Machine Learning Systems

Bob Williamson studies some of the theories underlying machine learning, including mathematical theories about data that go beyond traditional probability theory.