Vanessa Völlinger

Prof. Dr. Vanessa Völlinger is a full professor (W3) in Educational Psychology with specialization in Diagnostics, Support, and Clinical Psychology at the University of Education, Freiburg, where she serves as Deputy Head of the Institute of Psychology. She holds additional leadership positions including Senate membership and coordination of the Bachelor's program in Special Education. Her academic journey includes prior roles at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and TU Dortmund.

Her research centers on three interconnected domains:

• Reading Competency Development: Designing peer-assisted strategy interventions for elementary/middle schools
• Cooperative Learning: Video-analytical studies on group dynamics and teacher implementation
• School Interventions: Evidence-based training frameworks for diverse classrooms

She currently leads projects KLUG (cooperative learning in elementary schools) and Ko-divers (diversity-sensitive cooperative learning).

She has received the Förderpreis 2008/2009 from LOS for her doctoral work on reading comprehension. Her publication record demonstrates consistent focus on peer-learning efficacy, with recent work examining implementation challenges of evidence-based reading interventions.

She actively supervises student theses on cooperative learning and reading interventions, emphasizing practical classroom applications. No dedicated lab is mentioned, but her work involves cross-institutional collaborations.