PLATO Cooperations – Institutions and Partners

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:

German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) – Frankfurt
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) – Kaiserslautern
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) – Saarbrücken
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) – Berlin
Goethe University Frankfurt – Frankfurt
Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt – Darmstadt
Rhineland Palatinate Technical University (RPTU) – Kaiserslautern-Landau
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