Institutions
PLATO is a collaborative research alliance, with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) serving as the research hub. The following institutions are actively participating in the PLATO project:
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German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) – Frankfurt |
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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) – Kaiserslautern |
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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) – Saarbrücken |
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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) – Berlin |
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Goethe University Frankfurt – Frankfurt |
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Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt – Darmstadt |
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Rhineland Palatinate Technical University (RPTU) – Kaiserslautern-Landau |
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Leibniz Knowledge Media Research Center – Tübingen |
PLATO is a collaborative initiative based in the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) region and brings together particularly researchers from institutions in the RMU research alliance.
Partners
EUROPE | THE AMERICAS | ASIA | AUSTRALIA
EUROPE
France
Labat, Jean-Marc – Professor of Information Technology at University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris
Luengo, Vanda – Professor of Artificial Intelligence at University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris
Germany
Altmeyer, Stefan – Professor of Religious Education, Catechesis and Didactics of Religion at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Artelt, Cordula – Professor for Educational Research at University of Bamberg
Baumert, Jürgen W. – Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Professor of Education at Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin
Beck, Klaus – Professor Emeritus of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Berti, Stefan – Professor for Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Blickle, Manuel – Professor for Algebraic Geometry, Topology and Number Theory at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Bromme, Rainer - Senior Professor for Educational Psychology at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Münster
Declerck, Thierry – Senior Consultant for Semantic Web and Multilingual Technologies at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrucken
Dörr, Dieter – Professor Johannes Gutenberg University
Falter, Jürgen W. – Professor for Political Science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Friederici, Angela – Director of Max Planck Institute and Vice-President of the Max Planck Society for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Gazzo Castañeda, Lupita Estefania – Senior Researcher of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Justus Liebig University Giessen
Goertz, Stephan – Head of the Faculty of Moral Theology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Güntürkün, Onur – Professor for Biopsychology at the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr-University Bochum
Hasselhorn, Marcus – Executive Director of the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), Frankfurt
Haun, Verena C. – Professor for Industrial and Organizational Psychology at University Würzburg
Heinze, Aiso – Head of the new Department of Mathematics Education at the Leibniz Institute for Science Education (IPN) Kiel and Professor for Mathematics Education at the University of Kiel
Igel, Christoph – Scientific Director of the Educational Technology Lab (EdTec) of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin
Imhof, Margarete – Professor for Educational Psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Janich, Nina – Professor of German Linguistics at Technical University Darmstadt
Jeschke, Colin - Research Assistant at the Department of Mathematics Education at the Leibniz Institute for Science Education (IPN) Kiel
Keith, Nina – Professor for Economic and Organizational Psychology at Technical University Darmstadt
Kircher, Tilo – Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at University of Marburg
Klein, Pascal – Professor for Didactics of Physics at Georg-August University Göttingen
Kravcik, Milos – Professor of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
Lehn, Manfred – Professor for Topology and Geometry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Luhmann, Heiko – Professor of Neuroscience at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Markl, Volker – Professor of the Database Systems and Information Management Group at Technical University Berlin
Metzinger, Thomas – Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Meyer, Bernd – Professor of Cross-Cultural Communication and General Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Meyer, Oliver – Professor for English-Didactics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Neumann, Knut - Head of the Department of Physics Education at the Leibniz Institute for Science Education (IPN) Kiel
Paulmann, Johannes – Executive Director of the Department of Universal History at Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG), Mainz
Pinkwart, Niels – Professor for Computer Science Education / Computer Science and Society at Humboldt-University zu Berlin
Quiring, Oliver – Professor for Communication Science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Rohrmann, Sonja – Professor of Differential Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics at Goethe University Frankfurt
Senkbeil, Martin – Research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) in Kiel
Siekmann, Jörg – Founder of German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern; Head of DFKI in Saarbrucken; Senior Professor for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Saarland University, Saarbrucken
Singer, Wolf – Founding Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) Frankfurt, Founding Co-Director of the Brain Imaging Center (BIC) Frankfurt, Founding Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Forum Frankfurt, Founding Director and Senior Fellow of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt
Spiess, Hans W. – Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Munich
Steinmetz, Ralf – Professor and Head of the Multimedia Communications Lab at Technical University Darmstadt
Straube, Benjamin – Professor for Translational Neuroimaging at Philipps-University Marburg
Ullrich, Carsten – Senior Researcher and Associate Head of the Educational Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin
Uszkoreit, Hans – Honorary Professor at Technical University Berlin and Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin
Wahlster, Wolfang – Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University, Saarbrucken, and Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern
Wessa, Michèle – Professor for Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Wiese, Wanja – Former Senior Researcher for Theoretical Philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Zesch, Torsten – Professor of Language Technology at University of Duisburg-Essen
Netherlands
Bakker, Arnold – Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Boshuizen, Els - Professor Emeritus of Learning Sciences at Open University, Heerlen, Netherlands
De Jonge, Jan – Professor for Work and Sports Psychology at University of Technology Eindhoven
Demerouti, Evangelia – Professor for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes at University of Technology Eindhoven
Fox, Jean-Paul – Professor of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences at University of Twente, Enschede
Hagoort, Peter – Director of Cognitive Neuroscience at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, founding director of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen
Schaufeli, Wilmar – Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at Utrecht University
Schiller, Niels O. – Professor of Psycho- and Neurolinguistics at Leiden University
Norway
Moser, Edward – Professor of Neuroscience and Founding Director of Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Co- director of Centre for Neural Computation at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Russia
Froumin, Isak - Head of Institute of Education at Higher School of Economics University Moscow
Kardanova, Elena – Director of the Institute of Education / Centre for Psychometrics and Measurement in Education at Higher School of Economics University Moscow
Podoloskiy, Andrey – Professor at National Research University Moscow
Switzerland
Bavelier, Daphné – Professor for Cognitive Neuroscience at University of Geneva
Gillet, Denis – Head of the Coordination and Interaction Systems Group of the Electrical Engineering Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Ecublens School of Engineering, Lausanne
United Kingdom
Coyle, Doreen – Professor Emeritus for Learning Innovation at School of Education at University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Floridi, Luciano – Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab at University of Oxford, England
THE AMERICAS
Argentina
García, Adolfo M. – Scientific Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience, Buenos Aires
Canada
Hinton, Geoffrey E. – Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at University of Toronto
Lajoie, Susanne P. – Professor of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University Montreal
Swain, Merrill – Professor Emerita of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at University of Toronto
United States of America
Baumeister, Roy F. – Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, Tallahassee
Ciampaglia, Giovanni L. – Assistant Research Scientist at School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington
Cortina, Kai – Professor of Psychology, Social Work and Psychology Director at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ellison, Nicole – Professor of Information at School of Information at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Folkman, Susan – Professor Emerita of Integrative Medicine at University of California, Berkeley
Kelly, Spencer – Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Colgate University, Hamilton
Kosslyn, Stephen M. – Professor Emeritus and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the Minerva Schools at KGI, San Francisco
McClelland, James L. – Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and Director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Computation at Stanford University
Menczer, Filippo – Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington
Mislevy, Robert J. – Professor Emeritus of of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation (EDMS) at University of Maryland, College Park
Nisbett, Richard E. – Professor of Social Psychology at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Pea, Roy – David Jacks Professor of Education and Learning Sciences at Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, Stanford
Posner, Michael – Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University of Oregon, Eugene, and Adjunct Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City
Scheufele, Dietram A. – Professor for Science Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Schleppegrell, Mary J. – Professor of Education at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Shulman, Lee S. – Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford University, Stanford
Willingham, Daniel – Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Wilson, Mark R. – Professor of Education at California University, Berkeley
Wineburg, Sam – Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and of & American Studies at Graduate School of Education at Stanford University
ASIA
China
Shen, Ruimin M. – Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Jiao Tong University, Shanghai
Japan
Kise, Koichi – Professor for Computer Science and Intelligent Systems at Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai
Shirakawa, Yuji - Associate Professor for Social Science at Chiba University
Yamada, Reiko – Professor for Social Science at the Department of Education and Culture at Doshisha University
AUSTRALIA
Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina – Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at University of South Australia, Adelaide
Dollard, Maureen F. – Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at University of South Australia and Director and Head of the Asia Pacific Centre for Work Health and Safety, Adelaide, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Director of the PSC Observatory, and Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham
Schlesewsky, Matthias – Professor of Education, Arts, and Social Sciences at University of South Australia, Adelaide