Team

Gerhard Lauer

Gerhard Lauer is Gutenberg Professor of Book History and Reading Research at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research focuses on the historical and systematic development of books and reading in our society.

Danil Fokin

Danil Fokin is a PhD candidate at the University of Warsaw. His primary research focus is on empirical expert-novice studies in poetry. Using psycholinguistic approaches, he investigates differences in eye-movement strategies and poetry-induced effects on cognitive reactions between advanced and less experienced poetry readers.

Günther Stocker

Günther Stocker is a Professor of German Literature at the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna. Before joining Vienna, he worked at the Universities of Rome III and Cassino. He was PI of several funded research projects. His main research areas are cold war literature, Austrian literature, digital reading and reading research.

Lukas Kosch

Lukas Kosch is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna. After studying German language and literature and history, he focused on post-war philosophy, narratology, the consequences of the digitalization of literature and the processes of literary reading from a reception theory perspective.

Jana Lüdtke

Jana Lüdtke studied psychology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Humboldt University of Berlin and received her PhD in psycholinguistics from Technische Universität Berlin. She is currently a research associate and laboratory manager at the Institute of Education and Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on reading, with a particular interest in the processes involved in reading and text comprehension, the factors that influence these processes, and how they affect the subsequent recall of the information presented.

Sascha Schröder

Sascha Schroeder studied psychology and musicology and received his PhD from the University of Cologne in 2008. From 2012 to 2018, he led the REaD research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Since 2018, he has been Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Göttingen. His research focuses on the cognitive foundations of reading, the identification and prevention of reading difficulties in children and adolescents, and the digitalization of teaching and learning environments.