Sen.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Bromme
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Senior-Professor for
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University of Münster Institute for Psychology Fliednerstr. 21 D-48149 Münster |
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Biography
Academic Education
05/1989 Habilitation (venia Legendi für 'Psychologie') at the University of Bielefeld 09/1979 Doctorate in Psychology at the University of Oldenburg 1975 Diploma in Psychology at the University of Münster Professional career
11/2019 Visiting professor (Haifa University Scholarship) at the Faculty of Education, Haifa University, Israel 03/2018 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 10-11/2017 Visiting Professor (Distingushed Visitor Award), Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand since 04/2017 Senior-Professor Educational Psychology at the Institute for Psychology, University of Münster 10/1995 - 03/2017 Professor (C4/W3) Educational Psychology at the Institute for Psychology, University of Münster 10/2006 - 09/2008 Dean of the Department of Psychology and Sport Science 04/1998 - 03/2002 Managing Director of the Institute for Psychology III of the University of Münster 10/1994 - 04/1995 Managing Director of the Institute for Educational Psychology at the University of Frankfurt/Main 10/1992 - 09/1995 Professor (C3) (Educational Psychology) at the Department of Psychology, University of Frankfurt/Main 10/1990 - 03/1991 Temporary Professor (Educational Psychology) at the Department of Psychology, University of Frankfurt/Main 08/1978 - 09/1978 Guest stay at the Institute for Research on Teaching of the Michigan State University 12/1975 - 10/1979 Research Assistant at the Institute of Mathematics Education (IDM) at the University of Bielefeld Activities in research organisations/advisory boards
for research projects see Research
since 2025 Associate member of Ce.LEB (Center for Learning, Development and Consulting of the Institute of Psychology at the University of Münster; www.uni-muenster.de/Psychologie.CeLEB/index.html) since 2023 Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW), Section II: Law, Social Sciences, Economics since 2022 Member of the scientific advisory board of the Leibniz Research Alliance Advanced Materials Safety since 2020 Member of the Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Expertenbank of the project Technologischen Wandel gestalten: Transparenz, Dialog und Beteiligung für gesellschaftlichen Konsens, Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech) since 2020 Member of the Advisory Board of the Horizon 2020 (European Union) project Enlightened trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance – conditions, effects and remedies (EnTrust) (Coordination: Prof. Lahusen, Universität Siegen) since 2019 Associated Member of CHESS- Center for Higher Education and Science Studies, Zürich University since 2017 Member of the scientific advisory board of Wissenschaftsbarometer (a German national survey on public attitudes about science) since 2016 Member of the Zentrum für Wissenschaftsheorie (University Münster) since 2015 Member of the advisory board of the Clearing House Instruction project of the School of Education, Technical University, München 2021 Member of the NCSES (National Center for Science and
Engineering Statistics) Public Attitudes, Knowledge, and Interest Expert Panel on behalf of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Washington, D.C.2017 - 2020 Chair of the scientific advisory board of the Kiel Science Outreach Campus (KiSOC) (Leibniz Science Campus of the IPN and Kiel University) 2014 - 2017 Member of the advisory board of the Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe (LifBi), University of Bamberg 2010 - 2016 Chairman of the advisory board of the Leibniz Wissenschaftscampus Bildung in Informationsumwelten, University of Tübingen 2009 - 2016 Speaker of the DFG Special priority research program (1409) Public understanding of conflicting scientific evidence 2009 - 2013 Member of the advisory board of the National Educational Panels (NEPS), Germany, Bamberg 2008 - 2011 Member of the expert group Problem Solving in Technology Rich Environments within the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC; OECD)
2007 - 2013 Member of the Senatsausschuss und Bewilligungsausschuss für die Graduiertenkollegs, German Science Foundation (DFG) 2002 - 2008 Member of the advisory board of the Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften (IPN), University of Kiel 2001 - 2009 Member of the advisory board of the Knowledge Media Institute (IWM), University of Tübingen 2000 - 2006 Member of the advisory board of PISA und DESI 2000 - 2002 Member of Task force Ausarbeitung von Empfehlungen zur Lehrerbildung der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Niedersachsen 2002 - 2004 Second chair of the Fachkollegium Psychologie (elected reviewer board) of the DFG 2000 - 2007 Member of the Fachkollegium Psychologie, DFG; elected reviewer board: educational and developmental psychology
Professorships & honors2005 Offer of a professorship (C4), Educational Psychology of the University of Potsdam (declined) since 1995 Professorship for Educational Psychology; Institute of Psychology of the University of Münster 1994 Offer of a professorship (C4), General and Educational Psychology at the University of Koblenz/Landau (declined) 1992 - 1995 Professorship at the Department of Psychology, University of Frankfurt/Main 2016 Franz-Emanuel-Weinert-Preis of the German Psychological Society (DGPs)
