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Education Policy

Dr. Tobias Becker
Associate Professor for History

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History

Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Contemporary History
  • Cultural history
  • Urban history (especially Berlin)
  • History of popular culture (19th and 20th century)
  • History of Great Britain
  • Nostalgia
  • Public History

Dr. Inka Bormann
Professor of Education

Department of Education and Psychology
Division of General Education

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Trust in educational institutions: requirements, forms, implications
  • Educational governance
  • Sustainability and education for sustainable development

Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancient Near East
  • Assyrians
  • Babylonians
  • Sumerians
  • Akkadians
  • Israel
  • Syria
  • Iraq
  • Middle East
  • Astronomy
  • Astrology
  • Science
  • Early states
  • School and education in pre-modern societies
  • History of knowledge
  • Oldest writing
  • Decipherment
  • Nimrud
  • Nineveh
  • Libraries
  • Cuneiform
  • Sumerian
  • Akkadian
  • Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
  • 4. - 1st millennium BC
  • History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
  • Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology

Dr. Gerhard de Haan
Professor of Education

Department of Education and Psychology
Education and Future Science

Fabeckstraße 37, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Futures studies
  • Future of schools
  • Sustainability & Education
  • Education landscapes
  • Knowledge Society

Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu
Professor of Physical Chemistry

Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy
Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry
Applied Physical Chemistry

Takustr. 3, 141295 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Materials
  • Nanoelectronics
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nanoscience
  • Physics

Dr. Dina Emundts
Professor of Philosphy

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Philosophy

Habelschwerdter 30, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • History of philosophy, especially Kant and Hegel
  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Mind (in part also theory of feelings, especially gratitude and conscience)

Dr. Nino Ferrin

Department of Education and Psychology
Primary Education
Teaching German at the Primary Level

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Media education; cultural and linguistic education
  • Education research
  • Educational anthropology
  • Theory of rituals and performativity

Dr. Peter Robin Hiesinger
Professor of Neurogenetics

Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy
Institute of Biology
Neurobiology and Behaviour

Takustaße 6, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Neural function
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Development of the brain

Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder
Professor of Geology

Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geological Sciences

Malteserstraße 74-100, 12249 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Anthropocene
  • Coral reefs
  • Sustainability transformation
  • Research communication
  • Museology
  • Geology

Dr. Hans Merkens
Professor of Education

Department of Education and Psychology
Empirical Education

Fabeckstraße 69, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Transformation of the education system
  • Youth violence
  • Problems in teaching children with migration background
  • Situation of immigrant children in elementary and secondary education
  • Multi-track systems in secondary education
  • Success of structural changes in the school system

Irene Pieper

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • German as a Teaching Profession
  • Didactics of Literature
  • Reading and literary competence and its acquisition
  • Literature in the classroom
  • Professionalisation

Dr. Michaela Sambanis
Professor of English Didactics

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

Language, Emotion and Movement

  • Translational research as a link between brain research and the practice of teaching and learning foreign languages

Drama Pedagogy in Teaching English and in Teacher Training

  • Early acquisition of foreign languages
  • Mixed-age learning settings
  • English instruction tailored to specific individual needs

Dr. Daniel Schubert
Professor of Biology

Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy
Institute of Biology
Plant Epigenetics

Königin-Luise-Straße 12-16, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Epigenetics
  • Developmental biology of plants
  • Chromatin regulation

Dr. Anita Traninger
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Rhetoric (history, theory, practice)
  • University History
  • Media History and New Media
  • Gender Studies
  • Global Literature
  • Spanish Literature
  • French Literature