Prof. Dr. Doris Holzberger

Academic Career and Research Areas

Teaching – Learning – Innovation. Doris Holzberger's research lies at the intersection of psychology and educational science. Her focus is on the dynamics behind learning. The goal: to explore ways to use new technologies to create effective and needs-based learning environments. By examining the characteristics of teachers and the interactions between educators and learners, innovative approaches can be developed, leveraging digitalization to maximize the learning success of students both individually and collectively.

After completing her psychology degree (University of Koblenz-Landau) and her PhD in 2013 (Goethe University Frankfurt), Doris Holzberger worked at the State Institute for School Quality and Educational Research in Munich and joined TUM as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2018, she took on the professorship for Research on Learning and Instruction and led the Research group ForSynZIB. Following her habilitation in 2021, she has been Professor of Psychology of Teaching and Learning at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology since Dec. 2023.

Awards

• Prize for the Promotion of Interdisciplinarity in Educational Research as part of the COSIMA project, Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF) (2023)
• Outstanding Reviewer Award der AERA & AERA Open (2021)
• Commended PhD Award, “Global SELF Research Network” (2015)
• Publication Award (Doctoral Student Category) of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (2015)
• Student Research Excellence Award, EARLI-Special Interest Group “Motivation and Emotion” (2011)