Current vacancies
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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:
Junior Research Group Leader
in Computational Psychometrics and Innovative Assessment Approaches for a period of 36 months.
Your tasks will include the following:
- research new approaches to assessment in education and learning, which
- link to existing work in learning analytics, educational data mining, multi-modal analytics, as well as computational psychometrics and data science.
- have a core theoretical underpinning in assessment and educational theory as well as the practical and innovative integration of assessment instruments in personalized and collaborative learning support.
- develop new theoretical approaches for assessment and integrate in educational settings for online and f2f assessment.
- integrate innovative assessment approaches with AI for personalized and contextualized assessment instruments.
- build up an internationally visible, independent research group that contributes to CATALPA´s reputation and visibility e.g. by
- publishing in highly-ranked journals and conferences,
- collaborating with other CATALPA members,
- attracting additional funding, and
- advising and engaging PhD candidates.
Please submit your application (in English or German) by July 18, 2025.
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.
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 26, 2025.
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