Katrin Lohrmann

Prof. Dr. Katrin Lohrmann holds the Chair of Primary School Education and Didactics at the Department of Education and Rehabilitation within LMU Munich's Faculty of Psychology and Education. Her work spans pedagogical theory, empirical classroom research, and instructional design for primary education.

• PhD from University of Bayreuth (2007)
• W3 Professor at Freiburg University of Education (2010-2019)
• Research at Northwestern University (2017)

Her research focuses on learning emotions (particularly boredom), conceptual development in science education, and comparative pedagogical methods. She investigates how contextual and decontextualization processes affect knowledge transfer, with recent work examining pandemic impacts on self-regulated learning and student well-being.

Key trends in her 15 most recent publications include: analogical reasoning in physics education, gender-specific learning patterns, needs-support frameworks in classrooms, and collaborative lesson planning strategies. Her work bridges empirical research with practical didactic implementations.

• Teaching Award 2010/2011 (Freiburg University of Education)
• Bayreuth City Prize for Young Scientists (2007)
• Democratic Action Program Award for 'Children Have Rights!' (2003)
• Primary School Working Group Award for Democracy Learning (2002)

As academic chairholder, she leads research initiatives on basic education and instructional quality, while serving on editorial boards and scientific advisory committees. Her methodological expertise combines classroom observations with person-centered approaches to student profiling.