Members

Research Interests

Media education / educational informatics

 Professional Career

• Full-Professor (W3) of Educational Science specializing in Media Pedagogy at the Ludwigsburg University of Education (since 2018)
• Academic Director of FTzM (since 2015)
• Professor of Educational Technology (Honorary Professor) at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (since 2015)
• Visiting Professor of Education at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences at the University of Vienna (2020)
• Full-Professor (W3) at the Chair of the Department of General Education Science II (temporary professorship) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2014–2016)
• Managing Director of FTzM (2011–2015)
• Doctorate at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
• Project Manager of fraLine, fraDesk, and fraMediale Cooperation Projects at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (2001–2011)
• Studies in Education Sciences (Adult Education and Educational Psychology) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
• Social Education and Media Education in Open Youth Work in Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe
• Teacher in Offenbach am Main
• Social Education in a Youth Centre in Frankfurt, Bergen-Enkheim
• Studies in Social Pedagogy (Youth Work and Media Education) at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
• Studies in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications) at the Dieburg University of Applied Sciences (now the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences)

Teaching Positions

• Visiting Professor of Education at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences at the University of Vienna (2020)
• Full-Professor (W3) of Educational Science specializing in Media Pedagogy at the Ludwigsburg University of Education (since 2018)
• Professor of Educational Technology (Honorary Professor) at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (since 2015)
• Full-Professor (W3) at the Chair of the Department of General Education Science II (temporary professorship) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2014–2016)
• Lecturer in Media Education and School Development at the Department of General Education Science II of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2011-2014)
• Lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering and the Faculty of Health and Social Work of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (1998-2014)

Awards/Prizes

• Awarded 2nd prize in the Employee Suggestion Scheme at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (2017)
• Awarded 1st prize in the Employee Suggestion Scheme at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (2015)
• Honoured in the Employee Suggestion Scheme of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (2014)
• Awarded 2nd place in the "Wege ins Netz" Competition by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie – BMWi) (2011)
• Awarded as one of the three Best Teachers at FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management (2011)
• Innovation Prize for Research from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Supporters Association (Förderverein der Fachhochschule Frankfurt e. V.) (2009)
• Awarded as one of the three Best Teachers at Hessian Academy of Business and Administration (VWA Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie, Hessen) (2008)
• "Landmarks in the Land of Ideas" ("Ein Ort im Land der Ideen"), an award that honours innovative, forward-looking projects (2008)

Memberships and Offices

• Member of the extended Executive Board of the Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur – GMK (since 2011; 2015-2019 Member of the National Executive Board)
• Spokesperson of the Qualitative Research Section of the Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur – GMK) (since 2011)
• Regular Member of the German Educational Research Association – GERA (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft – DGfE), Division 12 – Media Education and Division 2 – General Education
• Member of the steering committee of the initiative "No education without media" ("Keine Bildung ohne Medien" – KBoM!) (since 2015)
• Member of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik – GI)
• Member of the Institute for Media Research and Media Education (Institut für Medienpädagogik in Forschung und Praxis –– JFF)
• Member of the "school" specialist group of the Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur – GMK)
• Member of the Hessian state group of the Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur – GMK)
• Member of the Bavarian state group of the Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur – GMK)
• Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Studies (IZdigital)
• Member of the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (Deutscher Hochschulverband – DHV)
• Member of the Supporters association of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
• Member of the Supporters association of the Ludwigsburg University of Education

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