Prof. Dr. Karina Karst
Karina Karst has been a member of the Collegial Management of zepf since 2026. Her professorship is based in the Department of Educational Sciences.
Further information on her CV, projects and publications can be found on the department's website.
karina.karst@rptu.de
06431/280 32 272
Bürgerstraße 23,
Room 135
Educational pathway
| 2026 | Professorship for Empirical School Research (W3), at RPTU in Landau |
| 2023 | Appointment as Associate Professor for Professional and School Research, University of Mannheim |
| 2019 | Positive interim evaluation of the junior professorship for teaching quality in heterogeneous contexts |
| 2016 | Junior Professorship for Teaching Quality in Heterogeneous Contexts, University of Mannheim |
| 2009 | Doctorate, University of Kassel, Dr. phil. in educational science, dissertation: "Competence modeling of the diagnostic judgment of primary school teachers" |
| 2006 | University of Mannheim, M.A. in Educational Science and Sociology, thesis: Contextual and individual factors influencing the development of interethnic friendships among German adolescents |
| 2002 - 2006 | University of Mannheim, studies in educational science and sociology, specializing in educational psychology and empirical educational science |
Career path
| 01/2026 - today | Professorship for empirical school research at the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University in Landau |
| 10/2023 - 12/2025 | Head of the apl. professorship and working group for professional and school research, University of Mannheim |
| 10/2016 - 09/2023 | Junior professorship for teaching quality in heterogeneous contexts, University of Mannheim |
| 01/2012 - 09/2016 | Part-time academic assistant (50%), University of Mannheim, Chair of Educational Psychology with Prof. Dr. Oliver Dickhäuser (on parental leave from June 2013 to April 2014) |
| 05/2011 - 12/2011 | Research assistant at the University of Kassel in the BMBF project "PERLE 2 - Personality and learning development of primary school children" (project management: Prof. Dr. Frank Lipowsky & Prof. Dr. Gabriele Faust) |
| 05/2006 - 04/2011 | Research assistant and project coordinator at the University of Kassel, German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) in the BMBF project PERLE - "Personality and learning development of primary school children" (project management: Prof. Dr. Frank Lipowsky & Prof. Dr. Gabriele Faust) (from December 2009 to April 2011 on parental leave) |
| CHANCEN network | Head of the structural units "Interdisciplinary Competence Center Data-driven Quality Development" and "Transfer and Transformation Hub Landau". Member of the extended management team of the CHANCEN network |
| STARK-MIT-DIBI | Management and network coordinator; network partner Leibniz Center for European Economic Research and Starkmacher e.V. |