Prof. Dr. Mareike Kunter

  Kunter

Director

Teaching and Learning in School Contexts

Teacher and Teaching Quality

Rostocker Straße 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main

+49 (0)69-24708-350

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Projects

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Academic and Professional Career

Since 5/2020
Director at the Department Teacher and Teaching Quality at the DIPF| Leibniz-Institute for Research and Information in Education & Professor for Empirical Educational Research with a Focus on Professional Behaviors of Educators at Goethe University Frankfurt
2010 2020
Full Professor of Educational Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt
2008
Habilitation in Psychology at Free University Berlin
2004 2010
Research Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Center for Educational Research
2004
Dr. phil. (PhD equivalent) in Psychology at Free University Berlin
1999 2004
Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Center for Educational Research
1999
Diploma (Master equivalent) in Psychology at the University of Würzburg
1992 1999
University Study: Psychology Diploma at the University of Würzburg
1995 1996
Erasmus exchange year at Trinity College Dublin

Honors/Awards

2019
Scientist of the Year-Award from the Alfons and Gertrud-Kassel-Stiftung
2018
Ranked as #3 in a list of top-producing female authors in Educational Psychology 2009 – 2016
2018
Named as one of the top 5 female educational researchers in the world in a survey of educational researchers by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
2016
Ranked as one of the most productive authors in several educational psychology journals for the period from 2009-2014 in the journal Educational Psychology Review
2015
Offer for a professorship at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, Great Britain (declined)

Current Work and Research Priorities

  • Professional competence and development of teachers
  • Teacher training
  • Teaching quality
  • Coopertations between science and practice

Contributions to Scientific Organisations and External Committees

  • Since 2024 Member of the DFG Review Board Education Research
  • Since 2021 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hector Stiftungen 
  • Since 2021 Co-Editor of the Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft 
  • 2021 – 2022 Vice President of the Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF; Society for Empirical Educational Research) 
  • Since 2020 Member of the Governing Board at DIPF
  • Since 2020 Head of Leibniz Education Research Network (with A. Praetorius, University of Zurich)
  • 2017 – 2021 President of the Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (Society for Empirical Educational Research)
  • 2017 – 2020 President of the Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung
  • Since 2016 Member of the Advisory Board of the School of Education University Tübingen
  • 2015 – 2020 Research Fellow at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
  • Since 2015 Member of the ABL Council (Advisory Board of the Academy for Teacher Training) at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • 2014 – 2019 Co-Editor of the Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie
  • 2014 – 2017 Associate Editor of Learning and Instruction
  • 2013 – 2017 Member of „Expertenkommission zur Weiterentwicklung der Lehrerbildung“ at the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg
  • 2012 – 2013 Member of the “Expert panel on the Development for Teacher Education” of the Ministries of Science and Education in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg
  • 2011 – 2020 Deputy Scientific Director and Member of the Scientific Boards of the IDeA Research Center in Frankfurt
  • 2011 – 2015 Managing Director of the Department of Educational Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • 2011 – 2015 Deputy Managing Director of the Institute of Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • 2011 – 2014 Member of the Scientific Board of Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie
  • 2011 Member of the Instrument Development Expert Group for the OECD’s “Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)”
  • Since 2010 Member of the Board of Directors as well as several other committees at the Institute of Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Department of Psychology and Sports Sciences as well as several committees
  • 2010 – 2020 Program director of the Department “Professionalization of Educators” at the IDeA Research Center in Frankfurt am Main
  • 2006 Member of the expert group “Mathematics tasks” for the development of educational standards in elementary school (headed by the IQB Berlin)
  • 2003 – 2004 Member of the national expert group “Conditions of mathematics learning/mathematics instruction” in PISA 2003
last modified Apr 10, 2024