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Junior Professorship for Educational Psychology

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Human Sciences and Education
  4. Academic Institutes
  5. Psychology
  6. Junior Professorship for Educational Psychology
  7. Team
  8. Assistant Professor Dr. Jan Lenhart
  9. CV

Academic education

10/2009–08/2012Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Wuerzburg
10/2012–11/2014Master of Science in Psychology at the University of Wuerzburg
10/2014–03/2019Bachelor of Arts in History (major) and Political and Social Studies (minor) at the University of Wuerzburg
08/2019

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychology at the University of Wuerzburg

Dissertation: Learning words from stories: How method of story delivery and questioning styles influence children’s vocabulary learning (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lenhard, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schneider)

01/2024Positive interim evaluation as assistant professor at the University of Bamberg

Academic positions

10/2010–01/2014

Student research assistant at the University of Wuerzburg

01/2014–03/2016

Research fellow at the Counseling Center for the Gifted and Talented ("Begabungspychologische Beratungsstelle") at the University of Wuerzburg (Prof. Schneider)

02/2015–03/2021PhD student at the Department of Psychology IV at the University of Wuerzburg (Prof. Schneider; since 10/2016 Prof. Richter)
04/2019–03/2021Freelancer at the Counseling Center for the Gifted and Talented ("Begabungspsychologischen Beratungsstelle") at the University of Wuerzburg (Prof. Richter)
since 04/2021Assistant professor for Educational Psychology at the University of Bamberg (W1 with tenure track W2)

Qualifications

10/2013Certificate in experience-oriented team pedagogy
11/2019Certificate in teaching in higher education awarded by the Bavarian universities (Basic level)
10/2020Certificate in teaching in higher education awarded by the Bavarian universities (Advanced level)
06/2022Certificate in counseling and education of gifted children (KLIKK certificate)

Scholarships and awards

12/2009–09/2014

Scholarship awarded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

09/2020Dissertation award of the University of Wuerzburg and the Foundation for Science of Lower Franconia
09/2021Dissertation award of the Section for Educational Psychology of the German Psychological Association (DGPs)
Winter term 2021/2022Award for excellent teaching (category: research-based teaching) of the Department of Psychology and the student council of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bamberg
2023Nomination for the Bettina-Paetzold-Award of the University of Bamberg for excellent teaching on gender topics

Memberships

  • German Psychological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für 188bet亚洲体育备用_188体育平台-投注*官网; DGPs): Section Educational Psychology, Section Developmental Psychology
  • European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI): SIG 5 Learning and Development in Early Childhood
  • International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL): Member of the research coalition Narrative Fiction and Social Cognition
  • Society for Empirical Educational Research (Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung; GEBF)

Reviewer for

  • Acta Psychologica
  • BMC Pediatrics
  • British Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Cogent Education
  • Current Psychology
  • Discourse Processes
  • Early Education and Development
  • European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
  • European Journal of Psychology of Education
  • Frontiers in Psychology (section Developmental Psychology)
  • International Journal of Educational Research Open
  • Journal of Children and Media
  • Journal of Early Childhood Education Research
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Journal of Research in Childhood Education
  • Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
  • Language, Culture and Curriculum
  • Learning and Individual Differences
  • Learning and Instruction
  • Lernen und Lernst?rungen
  • PLOS ONE
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  • Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
  • Psychology of Language and Communication
  • Sex Roles
  • Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und P?dagogische 188bet亚洲体育备用_188体育平台-投注*官网