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Dr. Natalia Reich-Stiebert serves as Advisor for Science Management at CATALPA research center for digital education at FernUniversität in Hagen since May 2024. She combines her psychological expertise with organizational strategy to support researchers in planning and coordinating research activities, with special focus on junior researchers' development through tailored continuing education programs.
Dr. Reich-Stiebert earned her PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychology from Bielefeld University in 2019, where she was part of the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC). She completed both her M.Ed. and B.A. in Psychology and Romance Philology at the Technical University of Dortmund and Ruhr-University of Bochum in 2013 and 2011 respectively.
Her research spans interconnected domains at the intersection of psychology, education, and technology. She investigates mental labor - particularly the cognitive dimension of care work and gendered aspects of unpaid household labor. Her work on diversity and computer-supported collaborative learning examines how multi-attributional student diversity affects group dynamics in digital environments. She explores social robots in education through user acceptance studies and design preferences, while also studying learning analytics and test anxiety's relationship to student retention.
Dr. Reich-Stiebert's publication trajectory shows progression from foundational human-robot interaction research to sophisticated analyses of diversity, identity, and learning outcomes in collaborative digital environments. Her recent work demonstrates expertise in analyzing multi-attributional diversity across gender, language, and cultural dimensions within CSCL contexts.
As Science Management Advisor, she plays a strategic role in CATALPA's research ecosystem, facilitating interdisciplinary collaborations and coordinating initiatives that advance digital education research. Her work directly supports FernUniversität's mission as Germany's only distance teaching university, contributing to understanding how digital technologies can support diverse learners in collaborative learning environments.
