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Biography
Education and Work Experience:
Since 10/2006: Professor in Economic and Business Education (Wirtschaftspädagogik), Goethe University Frankfurt
10/2009-09/2011: Academic Dean, faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe University Frankfurt
08/2004 – 09/2006: Research Associate (Akademische Rätin) Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
07/2004: Habilitation (Dr. rer. pol. habil.) at the faculty of Law, Economics and Business Administration, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
10/2002 – 02/2003: Assistent Professor, „Lehrstuhl für Erziehungswissenschaft I“, Freiburg University
09/1998 – 09/2004: Assistent Professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin), Chair of Business Education (Wirtschaftspädagogik), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
05/1998: Dr. rer. pol., University of Gießen
11/1992 – 07/ 1998: Research and Teaching Assistent (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Arbeits-, Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
10/1987 – 10/1992: Studies in Business Education (Wirtschaftspädagogik) and English, Mannheim University
10/1984 – 09/1987: Assistant Sales Manager, Firma Gebr. Staiger GmbH in St. Georgen
01/1982 – 06/1984: Vocational education, travel agent, Reisebüro Leidhold in Freiburg
Membership in scientific communities:
Since 1993: European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
Since 1995: „Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung" (AEPF, working group empirical pedagogical research), Section "Empirische Bildungsforschung“ (empirical educational research) in the German Society for Educational Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft, DGfE)
Since 1998: „Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik“ (Vocational Education) in the German Society for Educational Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft, DGfE)
Since 1998: German Society for Educational Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft, DGfE)
Since 2000: American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Since 2013: Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (Society for Empirical Reasearch on Education; GEBF)
Further Activities:
2009 - 2013: Spokeswoman of the board of the association “Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik”, editor of the conference proceedings twice every year
2004 – 2009: Editorial Secretariat for the European Journal of Vocational Training (German Speaking Countries)
Member of the Editorial board of Educational Research Review
Reviewer for various scientific journals and conference papers
Reviewer for the City of Vienna
Various activities in the academic administration
Main Research Activities:
• Teacher Education Research
• Accounting Education
• Development and Measurement of Economic Competence
• Development and Measurement of Financial Literacy
• Workplace Learning
• Problem Solving