Scientific Advisory Board with New and Familiar Faces

All Leibniz Institutes are advised by a Scientific Advisory Board. The seven members of the IWM’s Advisory Board are appointed by Theresia Bauer, Minister for Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg. They are all internationally recognised experts in the institute's field of research. On 1 January, the following four researchers were each appointed for a period of four years:

Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt, Director of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg

Prof. Dr. Olaf Köller, Director of the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) in Kiel

Prof. Dr. Doris Lewalter, Professor of Formal and Informal Learning at the TU Munich

Prof. Dr. Tamara van Gog, Professor of Educational Sciences at Utrecht University (Netherlands)

The seven-member advisory board also includes familiar faces such as Prof. Dr. med. Martin Fischer, Director of the Institute for Medical Education at the LMU University Hospital in Munich, who is serving his current term until the end of this year. Prof. Dr. Vincent Aleven, Director of the Undergraduate Program at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg (USA), and Prof. Dr. Eva Jonas, academic director of the postgraduate university course "Master in Training and Development" at the Salzburg Management Business School, were reappointed for another term of office.

"I am very pleased that we were able to recruit highly distinguished and experienced advisory board members," says IWM Director Prof. Dr. Ulrike Cress. The advisory board members will elect their chairperson at the forthcoming spring meeting. The four new scientists will assume the positions of Prof. Dr. Birgit Spinath, Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Prenzel, Prof. Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer and Prof. Dr. Stefan Stürmer, whose term of office ended at the turn of the year. "I would like to sincerely thank the former members for their expertise and professional input over the past years," says Ulrike Cress.