Research interests
Current research interests:
- Professional competencies of (beginning) teachers (in schools and early education) and their development during academic and vocational education and training
- Teachers’ beliefs on (cultural) heterogeneity
- Heterogeneity in educational processes
Further research interests:
- (Pre)School-parent-partnerships in heterogeneous contexts
- (Early childhood) education and social (in)equality
- (Early childhood) intervention programs
- Multilingualism and integrated approaches to (early) language education
Currucilum vitae
Professional Appointments
10/2016 – present | Associate Professor for Educational Research with Focus on |
10/2012 – 09/2016 | Research Associate (Post-doctoral) |
03/2014
| Visiting scholar |
04/2007 – 09/2012 | Pre-doctoral Research Assistant Center for Educational Research, Project COACTIV (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Baumert, Dr. Mareike Kunter) Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin |
09/2006 – 12/2006 | Research Associate |
Education and Degrees
12/2012 | PhD, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin |
08/2006 | Diploma in Psychology |
09/2003 – 07/2004 | Study Abroad, University of Chicago Courses: Quantitative methods in psychology, sociology (sociology of education and political participation) and independent study project. |
04/2000 – 10/2002 | Pre-diploma |
Memberships in Professional Programs
02/2015 – 02/2016 | Elected Participant in the program ProFiL (Professionalization of Women in Science and Education), a joint program of the three universities in Berlin for women in academia on their way to a professorship. Mentor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Richter |
03/2013 – 02/2016 | Elected Fellow |
Official Positions
2015-2016 | Founding member and General Secretary of the Max Planck Alumni Association |
2014-2015 | Elected representative of the Fellows in the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER) |
11/2008 – 10/2009 | Elected member of the PhDnet Steering Committee, PhD representative for the Humanity Section of the Max Planck Society |
11/2008 – 03/2011 | Active member of the survey working group of the MPS PhDnet, co-author of the 3. PhDnet – Survey (download under: www.phdnet.mpg.de/documents/PhDnet-Survey_2009.pdf) |
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Lehrerbildung auf dem Prüfstand
Journal of Teacher Education
Learning and Instruction
Applied Psychology: Health & Well-Being
Publications and Lectures
Here you can find the detailed publication list of Axinja Hachfeld.