Current vacancies

Would you like to work at our research center? Even if there is no suitable position advertised for you at the moment, we would be pleased if you contact us. We would like to talk to you and discuss possible perspectives.

We are looking for new members to join our team:

PhD Collaborative AI Agents

to collaborate in the field of learning sciences in higher education for a period of 36 months.

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Establish independent research priorities to achieve your scientific qualification (doctorate).
• Contribute to the design and development of innovative collaboration agents.
• Engage with stakeholders, including students and educators, to gather requirements and feedback on the tools developed.
• Conduct empirical research, including data collection, analysis and interpretation using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Prepare findings for publication in high-impact journals and present at (inter)national conferences.
• Participation in events organized by CATALPA and the CATALPA Graduate School, such as the research colloquium, the poster symposium, or workshops.
• Together with other CATALPA researchers, you may contribute to the preparation of interdisciplinary third-party funding applications.
• There are no teaching obligations.

We look forward to receiving your application by June 12, 2025.

To the complete job advertisement

A student assistant working 10 hours per week

to collaborate in the field of learning sciences in higher education for a period of 12 months.

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Assisting with scripting for data analysis (Python/R) of course data and experimental studies, as well as helping to prepare data sets for further analysis
• Documenting and managing scripts in Gitlab
• Managing, documenting, and archiving data sets
• Assisting with agile software engineering using SCRUM and collaborating in a team
• Interdisciplinary collaboration between educational sciences, psychology, design, and other departments for learning analytics and data analysis
• Participating in project meetings in Hagen and via Zoom
• Assisting with qualitative data collection and evaluation
• Assisting with open access project publications

We look forward to receiving your application by June 8, 2025.

To the complete job advertisement

(german only)