Committees and Members of CATALPA
Management and Coordination | Research Professorships | Junior Research Group Leaders | Project Leaders | Total List of members | Associated Academic Staff | Scientific Advisory Board | Alumnae and Alumni
Management and Coordination
The Scientific Director represents the Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics (CATALPA), conducts its business under his own responsibility and is accountable to the members of the Executive Board. In case he is prevented from doing so, these tasks are taken over by the Deputy Scientific Director.
read more
The management of CATALPA is the responsibility of the Executive Board. It is chaired by the Scientific Director.
The voting members of the Executive Board consist of the Scientific Director, his deputy, the CATALPA professors, in principle the CATALPA members with project management responsibility (if the number is too large, representatives are elected), a representative of the scientific staff and a representative of the cooperation partners. The students are also represented in an advisory capacity, as are the non-scientific employees.
The Administrative Office supports the scientific management in the performance of its tasks and coordinates overarching activities. It is managed by the Administrative Director.
Scientific Management
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich W. Hesse
Scientific Director - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg M. Haake
Deputy Scientific Director
Administrative Management and Coordination
- Dr. Stephanie Steimann
Administrative Director - Dr.-Ing. Dirk Veiel
IT-Coordinator - Sandra Kirschbaum
Science Communicator - Kathrin Schneidmüller
Assistance
Executive Board
- Dr. Natalia Reich-Stiebert
Deputy: Heike Karolyi (german) - Jürgen Nickel
Student representation (advisory) - Kathrin Schneidmüller
Representation of non-scientific staff (advisory)
Research Professorships
The CATALPA Professorships are one of the core structures of the Research Center. Financed from our own funds and of unlimited duration, they form permanent pillars for the work in the Research Center.
Currently, one Professorship has already been filled and another is being planned.
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torsten Zesch
„Computational Linguistics"
- in planning:
„Learning Analytics“ (exact denomination under development)
Junior Research Group Leaders
The CATALPA Junior Research Groups are one of the core structures of the Research Center. They have a temporary but central role at the CATALPA and are driving forces of the innovative and dynamic collaboration in CATALPA.
So far, three Junior Research Groups have been appointed in competitive procedures.
- Dr. Laura Froehlich
Junior Research Group „Stereotype Threat“
and project „Do I belong?“ - Dr. Fang Zhao
Junior Research Group „Multimedia“
- Dr. Andrea Horbach
Junior Research Group „EduNLP“
and project „Explaining AI“
Project Leaders
Our scientists work together in projects on an interdisciplinary basis. The active exchange between individual projects is actively promoted by the Research Center.
Total list of our scientific members
- Aggarwal, Piush
- Bayzaei, Sohail
- Bewersdorff, Jeanette
- Bexte, Marie
- Bick, Nathalie
- Braun, Julien
- Brodmann, Finn
- Burchart, Marc
- Deacon, Bronwen (HIIG)
- de Witt, Claudia
- Ding, Yuning
- Elsholz, Uwe
- Fecher, Benedikt (HIIG)
- Froehlich, Laura
- Gold, Christian
- Gropengießer, Kirsten
- Haake, Jörg M.
- Hamacher, Marius
- Hanses, Michael
- Hesse, Friedrich W.
- Hochstein, Jennifer
- Horbach, Andrea
- Horstmann, Petra
- Karolyi, Heike
- Kasakowskij, Regina
- Kirschbaum, Sandra
- Kuper, Freia (HIIG)
- Kuzilek, Jakub (HU)
- Laufer, Melissa (HIIG)
- Ma, Lihong
- Mende, Maricia A. (HIIG)
- Menze, Dennis
- Mroz, Melanie
- Nguyen, Viet
- Pehlke, Joey
- Pinkwart, Niels (HU, DFKI)
- Radovic, Slavisa
- Raimann, Jennifer
- Reich-Stiebert, Natalia
- van Rijn, Lars
- Schäfer, Len Ole
- Schopp, Susanne
- Schröter, Hannes
- Schumacher, Clara (HU)
- Seidel, Niels
- Smolnik, Stefan
- Steimann, Stephanie
- Stürmer, Stefan
- Tschache, Tiana
- Vahlkamp, Leon
- Veiel, Dirk
- Völzmann-Stickelbrock, Barbara
- Wang, Xia (DFKI)
- Wehrhahn, Franziska
- Wendling, Timon
- Wrede, Silke
- Zesch, Torsten
- Zhao, Fang
- Zimmermann, Alexander (DFKI)
- Zinke, Nikolai (DIE)
Associated Academic Staff
Thinking and working in networks and cooperations is a defining part of CATALPA's self-image. The Research Center is convinced: Only through open exchange and interdisciplinary cooperation excellent science is created.
For the project InterMINT:
For the project LAMASS
For the project NOVA:ea
Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board advises CATALPA on fundamental subject-related and interdisciplinary questions of its scientific work.
This includes, in particular, advising on medium-term research and development planning, discussing the activity report submitted by the Scientific Director, making recommendations on scientific programmes, research projects and cooperations, and submitting suggestions and proposals for research groups and projects.
The Scientific Advisory Board consists of 6 members:
- Prof. Dr. Tamara van Gog
Chair of Educational Sciences, University Utrecht - Prof. Dr. Dirk Ifenthaler
Chair of Learning, Design and Technology, University Mannheim - Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ulrike Lucke
Professor of Complex and Applied Multimedial Architectures , University Potsdam - Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers
ICALL Research Group, University Tübingen - Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht
Professor for Digital Education, Technical University of Delft and Director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Center for Education and Learning - Prof. Dr. Uwe Wilkesmann
Chair of Organizational Studies and Management of Continuing Education, Technical University Dortmund
Alumnae and Alumni
CATALPA is in contact with these academics through the joint development period and/or completed projects and maintains a good exchange.
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Ayad Al-Ani
- Prof. Dr. Theo J. Bastiaens
- Prof. Dr. Ulrike Baumöl
- Alina Bockshecker, M.Sc.
Beteiligt am Projekt „Bildungsökosysteme“ - Prof. Dr. Jörg Desel
- Sven Dittes, M.Sc.
Beteiligt am Projekt „Bildungsökosysteme“ - Dr. Christina Gloerfeld
Beteiligt am Projekt „AI.EDU“ - Birgit Großer, M.Sc.
Beteiligt am Projekt „Bildungsökosysteme“ - Mandy Goram, M.Sc.
Beteiligt am Projekt „APLE“ - Jana Hochberg, M.A.
Beteiligt am Projekt „Bildungsökosysteme“ und „Hochschulen der Zukunft“ - Hoai Nam Huynh, M.A.
Beteiligt am Projekt „Durchlässigkeit“ - Prof. Dr. Christoph Igel
Beteiligt am Projekt „AI.EDU“ - Dr. Milos Kravcik (DFKI)
Beteiligt am Projekt „AI.EDU“ - Jennifer Raimann, M.A.
Beteiligt am Projekt „DivAdapt“ - Rupali Sinha, M.Sc. (DFKI)
Beteiligt am Projekt „AI.EDU“ - Carsten Thorbrügge, M.Sc.
Beteiligt am Projekt „Durchlässigkeit“ - Cathrin Vogel, M.A.
Beteiligt am Projekt „Bildungsökosysteme“ - Dr. Jan-Benett Voltmer
Beteiligt am Projekt „DivAdapt“
