Student motivation and achievement, Educational and occupational choices (e.g., in STEM), Teachers’ professional competencies (e.g., motivation, responsibility)

Daria Benden is a postdoctoral researcher in the research area of Empirical Educational Research and Educational Psychology, led by Prof. Fani Lauermann, Ph.D., at the Bonn Center for Teacher Education and a postdoctoral fellow at the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER). She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in teacher education (specializing in mathematics and physics) and earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from TU Dortmund University in 2022. She has received international awards for young scholars from the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI SIG-8) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA MotSIG). Her research interests include student motivation and achievement, educational and occupational choices (e.g. in STEM fields) and professional competences and attitudes of teachers.