Master’s in Educational Science, Psychology and Sociology at LMU Munich. Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychology from Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (2006). Scholarship student in the DFG-funded Virtual Ph.D. Program “Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Exchange With New Media” (2002-2005). Researcher at Knowledge Media Research Center (KMRC) in Tübingen (2005-2006). Post-Doc at the Chair for Empirical Education and Educational Psychology at LMU Munich (2006-2015). Interim Professor for Psychology of Excellence in Business and Education at LMU Munich (2010-2012). Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Topic: “Orchestrating complex learning and teaching processes: Contextual and design-related conditions for the effectiveness of computer-supported collaboration scripts”) (2013). Coordinator of the Special Interest Group 20 (“Inquiry Learning”) of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI; 2017-2021). Since Oct. 1, 2015: Full Professor for Educational Psychology at the University of Augsburg. Since 2017 coordinator and chairman of the examination committee of the Master's program "Interdisciplinary Research on Learning and Teaching". Since 2021 speaker of the project "Fostering competence development with digital, authentic and feedback-based instructional scenarios" (KodiLL).