Ulf is a learning innovation expert, founder of mindful-leaders.net, serial entrepreneur, Scientific Director and Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe in 2011. From 2011-2017 he held the position of Vicepresident at the same university and has been responsible for Quality and Academic Affairs.
He held positions as Associate Professor of University Duisburg-Essen (Germany), Professor for Technology Enhanced Learning of University Augsburg (Germany) and Associate Professor of the Graduate School for Management and Technology of the University of Maryland University College (USA). Ulf has delivered keynotes and been speaking to audiences in more than 45 countries. He is author of more than 10 books and 150 scholarly articles with over 3000 academic citations. Ulf is a trained coach, facilitator and expert for mindful communication, and holds degrees in English Language, Social Sciences and Education Sciences from the University of Bielefeld, where he finished his Ph.D. with honors in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning in 2003. He was awarded his habilitation in 2008 from the University of Duisburg-Essen. His writings on Quality in education are internationally awarded.
Vanessa Steinmetz has been working in the secretariat at the Chair of Education Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Karlsruhe since January 2024.
The qualified marketing communications specialist worked as a marketing manager in a digital agency from 2014 to 2023. As the team's fairy, she contributes her knowledge and experience from the digital industry to the team in addition to general office organization and coordination.
Laura Eigbrecht is an academic assistant at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University at the Chair of Educational Management and Lifelong Learning.
As a doctoral candidate, she conducts research in the field of transformative and participatory future skills in higher education. After her binational bachelor's degree and her master's degree in children's and youth media, she worked at the children's channel of ARD and ZDF as well as in teaching and consulting in the field of migration, language and education.
She continues to produce podcasts and radio segments on topics such as the future of higher education and sustainability.
Dr. Martin Lindner is an expert in digital education and training, cloudlearning and microlearning.
Since 2005, he has been advising and supporting organizations and companies in using the latest web media and technologies to redesign concrete learning experiences and knowledge processes.
In the last century he was a literary scholar and cultural semiotician (Dr. phil habil.).
After training as an "author of interactive learning media", he was a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck in 2002-2004 (for the interfaculty focus Media - Communication - Education - Knowledge), and at Research Studios Austria in 2004-2009 (as a senior researcher for microlearning / microinformation). Since 2010 he has been working as a knowledge worker on a freelance basis and in changing projects. Since 2023 he is a scientific project worker in the "Research Group NextEducation" at DHBW Karlsruhe (project "AI-Campus 2.0").
Jörn Allmang is an academic assistant at the Chair of Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University.
He studied educational science with a focus on media education and adult education in both his BA and MA. During his studies, he worked in various innovative areas of the e-learning industry ranging from conceptual work in an e-learning agency to a research institute.
In addition to his position at the DHBW, he is also employed as a research assistant at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University. There he is responsible for the conception of (media-) didactic training offers for lecturers as well as for the realization of these.
Tanja Dauth is an academic assistant at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University.
She studied Tourism Management at the Cooperative State University in Ravensburg, completed 2 semesters abroad in France at the Université d'Angers and then worked as a semesters abroad in France at the Université d`Angers and then worked for over ten years as Head of Corporate Communications and Media Cooperation at L'TUR Tourismus AG in Baden-Baden.She was also responsible for public relations for the "Deutsche Medienpreis" award ceremony of the company media control Baden-Baden (award winners include Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama). Head of Corporate Communications and Media Cooperation at L'TUR Tourismus AG in Baden-Baden for over ten years.
She was also responsible for public relations for the "German Media Prize" awards ceremony organized by media control Baden-Baden (award winners included Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama).She was also a project manager in the mail order business and organized trips all over the world in the tourism industry.
At the DHBW, she is responsible for the network communication of the projects of the Chair of Education Management and Lifelong Learning and supports the "KI-Campus" project.
Emily Rauch has been working as an academic assistant at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University at the Chair of Educational Management and Lifelong Learning since 2021.
She studied European Culture and History of Ideas in her Bachelor's and Master's degree at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
As a research assistant, she already built up the team's public relations since 2020 and continues to be responsible for the websites and social media as content manager.