Main Fields of Research

Education

• Early childhood education and research on aging, with foci on education during the years before school starts and after retirement
• Education and futures research
• Empirical educational research
• Intercultural education
• Intercultural competence, gender and diversity research in education, school, and child-rearing
• Steering mechanisms in the education system, teaching and school research, extracurricular education

Psychology

• Decision making
• Violence prevention and conflict studies
• Healthy aging
• Neurocognition, cognitive and affective neuroscience
• Psychological methods and evaluation

Involvement in Multidisciplinary Research Areas:

• Educational processes and educational outcomes
• Health and quality of life
• Security research
• Fundamentals of biomedicine