Anne Pesch

Anne Pesch is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Educational Sciences at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), where she has worked since winter semester 2020/21. Her research examines the impact of digital technologies on human embodiment and relationality through phenomenological and postphenomenological frameworks.

Education:

• First State Examination in Pedagogy, German, and Philosophy from University of Cologne

Research Focus: Pesch investigates human-technology relationships and digital transformation through educational anthropology and phenomenology of the body (Leiblichkeit). Her work analyzes how care robots, brain-computer interfaces, and digital media reshape human experiences of self, others, and the world, emphasizing new materialities, spatialities, and socialities emerging in technological contexts.

Publication Trends: Her recent works explore learning in human-technology interfaces and rethinking technological relations pedagogically, revealing how digital environments transform identity formation and embodied cognition through postphenomenological lenses.

Scientific Recognition:

• GradV scholarship from Graduate Research School (2021–present) supporting doctoral research

Academic Engagement: Pesch moderates lecture series on eudaimogenesis and leads sessions in Educational Sciences courses. She secures research funding for projects examining body-technology relationships through theoretical work and field studies, while maintaining professional work at Deutschlandfunk.

Research Collaborations: Active in Eudaimogenesis/EudaPraX team focusing on identity and vulnerability, with affiliations in German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), German Society for Philosophy (DGPhil), and Humanities for Education Cologne networks.