Jessica Kathmann receives funding from the Mathilde Planck Lectureship Programme

Psychologist Jessica Kathmann, who is earning  her doctorate in Prof. Dr Peter Gerjets' Multimodal Interaction lab on learning with digital games, will receive funding for two years, starting in the winter semester, 2024-2025.   from the Mathilde Planck Lectureship Programme.

The programme  supports young female academics on their way to a professorship at a university of applied sciences and is funded by the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts.   It will pay for a lectureship and accompanying framework programmes.

Jessica Kathmann has already had considerable  teaching experience at several universities, including the SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg and Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences. From the winter semester onwards, she will be teaching the subjects ‘Psychology for Game Developers’ and ‘Edutainment’ as part of the ‘Virtual Worlds & Game Technologies’ degree programme at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences.  Her focus will be on motivational processes in gaming and learning.

Further information: Mathilde Planck Teaching Assignment Programme / website in German: Mathilde-Planck-Lehrauftragsprogramm