Professional Positions and Affiliations
| since 04/2021 |
Professor of Educational Technology School of Education, Universität Wuppertal, Deutschland |
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| 04/2019-09/2019 |
Fixed-Term Professor of Educational Psychology Institute of Educational Psychology, University of Teacher Education Weingarten, Germany |
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| 10/2013-10/2020 |
Junior Professor of Serious Games – Skill Advancement Through Adaptive Systems Sponsored Professorship funded by Carl-Zeiss Foundation Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Germany |
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| 02/2013-09/2013 |
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Online Lecture “Training and Learning with Multimedia“ University of Maryland, USA |
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| 02/2013-09/2013 |
Fixed-term Professor of Research-Based Learning Project Research-Based Learning in Focus, University of Oldenburg, Germany |
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| 06/2006-09/2012 |
Doctoral Research Associate Institute of Education and Media Research, FernUniversität Hagen (Germany's State Distance Learning University), Hagen, Germany |
Academic Qualifications
| 10/2016 | Habilitation-equivalent interim evaluation of the junior professorship | |
| 03/2012 |
Doctoral degree Title of dissertation: Educational computer games and learning: Three empirical studies of games’ impact on virtual presence, cognitive load and learning outcomes Institute of Education and Media Research, FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany's State Distance Learning University), Hagen, Germany Final grade: summa cum laude |
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| 12/2005 |
Master degree Communication and Media, Educational Psychology, Cultural science Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany |
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| 06/1999 |
Abitur (General qualifications for university entrance) Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium, Erfurt, Germany |
Research Visits and Scholarships
| 10/2019–09/2020 |
Research Fellow Scholarship funded by the German Research Foundation Visiting researcher working with Prof. Dr. Slava Kalyuga, Educational Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 08/2016–10/2016 |
Travel Scholarship funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Education and Research Visiting researcher working with Prof. Dr. Jan Plass, Digital Media and Learning Science Group, New York University, USA |
Awards
| 2018 | Carl-Zeiss Foundation Prize for Best Cooperation Between Science and Industry | |
| 2018 |
Nomination for Best Serious Game 2018 German Computer Games Award |
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| 2016 |
Award for Best Research Idea Linking Science of Education, Engineering and Medicine Ulm University |
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| 2015 |
Best Paper Award for Work in Progress International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Prague, Czech Republic |
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| 2012 |
Best PHD Thesis Award FernUniversität in Hagen, (Germany's State Distance Learning University), Hagen, Germany |
Engagement
| Member-/Leadership |
Lead BU:NDLE-Team School of Education, Steering group Digitali European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), SIG 6 Instructional Design, SIG 7 Learning and Instruction with Computers, Deputy speaker of the German Media Psychology Group, The German Psychology Society (DGPs), 2017-2021 |
| Reviewer Journals |
Learning and Instruction, Psychology Learning and Teaching Journal, Transaction on Learning Technologies, Educational Technology Research & Development, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning |
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Reviewer Conference Papers |
AERA Conference 2019, EARLI SIG 6/7 Conference 2016, Media Psychology Conference 2015 |
| Organizer/Chair |
Integrating Motivational-Affective Variables into a Cognitive Perspective on Learning with Different Media, Symposium EARLI 2013, München, Germany, Using Social Media for Teaching and Learning, Training for teachers at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany, 2013 |
