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.
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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.
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich W. Hesse
Scientific Director - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torsten Zesch
Deputy Scientific Director - Dr. Stephanie Steimann
Administrative Director - Kathrin Schneidmüller
Assistance
- Dr. Natalia Reich-Stiebert
Science Management - Dr.-Ing. Dirk Veiel
IT-Coordinator - Nico Steinhardt
IT-Administrator - Sandra Kirschbaum
Science Communicator - Christina Lüdeke
Science Communicator
Executive Board
Photo: Henrik Schipper/Hardy Welsch/Bernd Müller/FernUni/Privat
voting
advisory
- Jürgen Nickel
Student representation (advisory) - Kathrin Schneidmüller
Representation of non-scientific staff
Deputy: Maria Efstathiadou - Dr. Stephanie Steimann
Administrative Director - Maria Barbarino/Natascha Compes
Equal Opportunities Coordination
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, two professorships have already been filled. A third professorship is on appeal (German).
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torsten Zesch
"Computational Linguistics"
- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ioana Jivet
"Learning Analytics in Higher Education" - On appeal:
"Learning Sciences in Higher Education"
Research Group Leaders
The CATALPA (Junior) Research Groups are a crucial structure of the Research Center. They have a central role in driving forces of the innovative and dynamic collaboration at CATALPA.
So far, three (Junior) Research Groups have been appointed.
Junior Research Group Leaders
- PD Dr. Fang Zhao
Junior Research Group "Multimedia" - Prof. Dr. Andrea Horbach
Junior Research Group "EduNLP"
Research Group Leaders
- PD Dr. Laura Froehlich
Research Group "Stereotype Threat"
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
- Amelong, Laura (DIE)
- Bayzaei, Sohail
- Bewersdorff, Jeanette
- Bexte, Marie
- Bick, Nathalie
- Burchart, Marc
- Christ, Oliver
- Deacon, Bronwen (HIIG)
- de Witt, Claudia
- Ding, Yuning
- Duong, Nghia Trung (DFKI)
- Elsholz, Uwe
- Fontanella, Vitor
- Froehlich, Laura
- Gaschler, Robert
- Gold, Christian
- Gropengießer, Kirsten
- Grundmann, Mai
- Haake, Jörg M.
- Hanses, Michael
- Hesse, Friedrich W.
- Hochstein, Jennifer
- Horbach, Andrea
- Jivet, Ioana
- Jonkmann, Kathrin
- Karolyi, Heike
- Kasakowskij, Regina
- Kirschbaum, Sandra
- Kuper, Freia (HIIG)
- Kuzilek, Jakub (HU)
- Laufer, Melissa (HIIG)
- Lenski, Sina Joana (DIE)
- Lüdeke, Christina
- Menze, Dennis
- Pinkwart, Niels (HU, DFKI)
- Radović, Slavisa
- Raimann, Jennifer
- Reich-Stiebert, Natalia
- Ruppenhofer, Josef
- van Rijn, Lars
- Schäfer, Len Ole
- Schröter, Hannes
- Schumacher, Clara (HU)
- Seidel, Niels
- Steimann, Stephanie
- Stürmer, Stefan
- Veiel, Dirk
- Wang, Xia (DFKI)
- Wehrhahn, Franziska
- Wolff, Katharina
- Wrede, Silke
- Zesch, Torsten
- Zhao, Fang
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 Ora/Orc:
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, Utrecht University - Prof. Dr. Dirk Ifenthaler
Chair of Learning, Design and Technology, University of Mannheim - Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ulrike Lucke
Chair for Complex Multimedia Application Architectures, University of Potsdam - Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) 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, TU Dortmund University
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
as visiting professor - Prof. Dr. Theo J. Bastiaens
Involved in the project "Educational Ecosystems" - Prof. Dr. Ulrike Baumöl
Involved in the project "Educational Ecosystems" - Alina Bockshecker, M.Sc.
Involved in the project "Educational Ecosystems" - Prof. Dr. Jörg Desel
Involved in the project "Permeability" - Sven Dittes, M.Sc.
Involved in the project "Educational Ecosystems" - Dr. Christina Gloerfeld
Involved in the project "AI.EDU" - Birgit Großer, M.Sc.
Involved in the project "Educational Ecosystems" - Mandy Goram, M.Sc.
Involved in the project "APLE" - Marius Hamacher, M.Sc.
Involved in the project "KISTRA" - Jana Hochberg, M.A.
Involved in the project "Educational Ecosystems" and "Universities of the Future" (German) - Hoai Nam Huynh, M.A.
Involved in the project "Permeability" - Prof. Dr. Christoph Igel
Involved in the project "AI.EDU" - Dr. Ronja Laarmann-Quante
Research assistant in the Research Professorship of Computational Linguistics - Dr. Milos Kravcik (DFKI)
Beteiligt am Projekt "AI.EDU" - Jennifer Raimann, M.A.
Involved in the project "DivAdapt" - Rupali Sinha, M.Sc. (DFKI)
Involved in the project "AI.EDU" - Prof. Dr. Stefan Smolnik
Involved in the project "Educational Ecosystems" - Carsten Thorbrügge, M.Sc.
Involved in the project "Permeability" - Prof. Dr. Barbara Völzmann-Stickelbrock
Involved in the project "Educational Ecosystems" - Cathrin Vogel, M.A.
Involved in the project "Educational Ecosystems" - Dr. Jan-Benett Voltmer
Involved in the project "DivAdapt" - Alexander Zimmermann (DFKI)
Involved in the project "AI.EDU" - Dr. Nikolai Zinke (DIE)
Involved in the project "NOVA:ea"
