Professor Dr. Karina Karst

Head of the work area

Bürgerstraße 23
Building: BS, Room: 135, Floor: 2. OG
76829 Landau

karina.karst(at)rptu.de

Educational pathway

2026Professorship for Empirical School Research (W3), at RPTU in Landau
2023Appointment as Associate Professor for Professional and School Research, University of Mannheim
2019Positive interim evaluation of the junior professorship for teaching quality in heterogeneous contexts
2016Junior Professorship for Teaching Quality in Heterogeneous Contexts, University of Mannheim
2009Doctorate, University of Kassel, Dr. phil. in educational science, dissertation: "Competence modeling of the diagnostic judgment of primary school teachers"
2006University of Mannheim, M.A. in Educational Science and Sociology, thesis: Contextual and individual factors influencing the development of interethnic friendships among German adolescents
2002 - 2006University of Mannheim, study of educational science and sociology, specializing in educational psychology, empirical educational science

Career path

01/2026 - todayProfessorship for empirical school research at the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University in Landau
10/2023 - 12/2025Head of the apl. professorship and working group for professional and school research, University of Mannheim
10/2016 - 09/2023Junior 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 - 12/2011Research 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 networkHead 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-DIBIManagement and network coordinator; network partner Leibniz Center for European Economic Research and Starkmacher e.V.