Katharina Marie Bach, M.Sc.

Shortbio:

Katharina Bach studied Psychology (B.Sc.) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the University of California Los Angeles. Afterwards, she specialized in learning sciences in the Psychology Master (M.Sc.) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the Munich Center of the Learning Sciences. As part of her master's thesis on support methods in science learning, she conducted research at the University of California Berkeley in the School of Education. During her studies she was involved as a research assistant and research intern in projects of different universities and institutes (among others, Deutsches Jugendinstitut, Internationales Centrum für Begabungsforschung, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, UCLA, UC Davis).

Since October 2022, she has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Empirical Pedagogy and Educational Psychology and is doing her PhD in teaching and learning research under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Hofer. Here, she especially investigates (digital) support possibilities of learning processes with a focus on disadvantaged students. Through her research on individual learning support, she wants to contribute to more educational equity.

Detailed Curriculum Vitae (PDF) (PDF, 84 KB)

• Digital learning support & adaptive learning environments
• Individual support of the learning process
• Instructional support & scaffolding
• Science learning
• Educational equity
• Individual factors influencing learning (e.g., socioeconomic status, migration history)