Benjamin Nagengast
Benjamin Nagengast is a German educational psychologist. He has been Full Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, since November 2012. He has been vice-director of LEAD Graduate School & Research Network since 2012, and vice-director of Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology at Tübingen University since 2014.
Life
Nagengast was born in Mainz and grew up near Frankfurt, Germany. After finishing high school, he studied psychology at Heidelberg University and afterwards social psychology and quantitative psychology at the Ohio State University, Columbus, US. In 2006, he graduated in Psychology and started working as a research assistant at the department of methodology and evaluation research at the University of Jena, Germany. In 2009 he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Jena and moved to Oxford University where he worked at the department of education as a postdoctoral research fellow under the lead of Herbert W. Marsh. In 2011 he became assistant professor at Tübingen University and in 2012 earned his habilitation, with studies focusing on substantive and methodological advances in education sciences and educational psychology.
Research
Nagengast's research focuses on different aspects of education, among them self-concept, communication of values, the effects of educational interventions in classrooms and research methodology. He is reviewer for numerous international scientific journals and editorial board member at the Journal of Educational Psychology and Review of Education.