Doctoral Students and Postdocs
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Who currently qualifies for CATALPA? What topics are our PhD candidates focusing on in the program? And what do I actually need to do if I want to complete my doctorate at CATALPA? You can find all the information you need here.
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Name (Preliminary) Title of Thesis Supervisor/
Co-SupervisorAggarwal, Piush Deconstructing Hate: Performance and Interpretability of Multi-Modal Models
Torsten Zesch Bewersdorff, Jeanette
Generating helpful feedback on student writing
Torsten Zesch Bexte, Marie
Combined Analysis of Image and Text Using Visio-Linguistic Neural Models - A Case Study on Robustness Within an Educational Scoring Task
Torsten Zesch Bouzayeni, Emna
tba
Jörg Haake Burchart, Marc
Eine Lernplattform zur Unterstützung von kollaborativen Schreibaufgaben in großen Fernlehrkursen
Jörg Haake Christ, Paul
Generierung kompetenzorientierter Aufgaben zur konzeptuellen Modellierung
Jörg Haake Deacon, Bronwen
Führung bei organisationalen Veränderungsprozessen an Hochschulen im Zuge der Digitalisierung von Lehre
External supervision at HIIG Ding, Yuning
Automatic Feedback on Argumentation, Coherence and Cohesion in Student Essays
Andrea Horbach, Hannes Schröter Gold, Christian Adapting Handwriting Recognition for Educational Assessment
Torsten Zesch
Grundmann, Mai
Student Diversity and Benefits of Providing Choice: Supporting Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness
Laura Froehlich Hanses, Michael
Learning Analytics und Künstliche Intelligenz in der Hochschulbildung: Datenarchitektur und Datenmanagementstrategie
Claudia de Witt, Jörg Haake Hochstein, Jennifer
Microdynamics due to multi-attributional diversity among learners in computer-supported collaborative learning
Laura Froehlich Karolyi, Heike
Selbstreguliertes Lernen in der digitalisierten Fernlehre - Erforschung von Modellen, Bedarfen und Gestaltungsansätzen zum selbstregulierten Lernen (SRL) im digitalisierten Fernstudium am Beispiel der FernUniversität in Hagen
Claudia de Witt Menze, Dennis
Adaptive and automated support of individual reading comprehension for digital course texts
Niels Seidel, Slavica Radović Raimann, Jennifer
“Fitting in or Standing out” – Gender stereotypes and their consequences on gendered self-perceptions, academic fit and learning success in non-traditional study majors.
Laura Froehlich Rinja, Daiana
Critical Thinking and Self-Regulated Learning with LLM-based Conversational Agents
Marcus Specht Schulze, Martin
Visualizing collaboration: The role of student dashboards in managing multi-attributional diversity in CSCL
Laura Froehlich Sun, Maoyin
tba
Jörg Haake Thier, Alexander
Practice-based Research on AI-Supported Interaction Formats for Immersive Learning in Higher Education
Thomas Ludwig van Rijn, Lars
Personalisierung von Feedback durch Learning Analytics im Hochschulstudium – eine bildungswissenschaftliche Studie
Claudia de Witt Wolff, Katharina
Supporting Cognitive and Motivational Engagement by Providing Opportunities for Active Choices in Higher Distance Education
Kathrin Jonkmann Wrede, Silke
Kollaborations- und Kooperationsformen zwischen Studierenden und GenKI-Chatbots. Studien zum Verständnis neuartiger Mensch-Maschine-Interaktionen in Lernprozessen und zu didaktischen Gelingensbedingungen
Claudia de Witt Yasin, Said (external) Recognition of student handwriting
Torsten Zesch Yücepur, Volkan
Personalized Feedback for Collaborative Academic Writing: A Learning Analytics Approach Using Weiner's Attribution Theory
Ioana Jivet -
Name Title of Thesis Date Supervisor/
Co-SupervisorRegina Kasakowski
May 2025 Jörg Haake Nathalie Bick February 2025 Laura Froehlich Franziska Wehrhahn February 2025 Fang Zhao -
Name Project/Anchored Dr. Nathalie Bick
Research group Stereotype Treat
Dr. Nghia Trung Duong (external) DFKI - project AI.EDU 2.0
Dr. Regina Kasakowski
Projects METALADIN and Aiducator
Dr. Melissa Laufer (external)
HIIG - Project ORC Dr. Florence Kristin Lehnert
Research professorship Learning Sciences Dr. Kamila Misiejuk
Research professorship Learning Analytics PhD Slavisa Radovic
Project APLE II PhD Josef Ruppenhofer Project DAKODA
Dr. Len Ole Schäfer
Project ORC Dr. Niels Seidel
Project APLE II Dr. Xia Wang (external)
DFKI - project AI.EDU 2.0 Dr. Franziska Wehrhahn (extern)
Project NOVA:ea Dr. Joachim Wöhrle
Project IMPACT -
Name Position at CATALPA Actual Position PD Dr. Laura Froehlich Research group leader Stereotype Threat Interim professorship, Social Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen Prof. Dr. Andrea Horbach Junior research group leader EduNLP Professorship IPN Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Junior research group leader Multimedia Consultant Future Skills, OTH Regensburg
Interested in doing your PhD at CATALPA?
If you are interested in pursuing a doctorate at CATALPA, please prepare an exposé that aligns with the profile of the corresponding research professorship. Send your application and exposé to the research professor and natalia.reich-stiebert.
You can also check our current vacancies for open PhD or postdoc positions.
