Kathrin Nieder-Steinheuer has been a research associate at the IWM since 2020. There she is involved in research and transfer activities on the use of digital media in education. Her current work focuses on formats for the exchange between educational practice, educational research, and technology development in the context of the adaptive learning platform for school use, AIS (“Adaptive Intelligent System”). Previously, she was involved in the development of the IWM portal schule-mal-digital.de. Kathrin Nieder-Steinheuer created transfer concepts to help STEM teachers use innovative digital technologies in ways that promote learning, and designed transfer formats for hybrid learning spaces at universities.

Kathrin Nieder-Steinheuer studied Communication Studies, German Philology as well as Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Münster (Magister Artium 2007). Her doctoral thesis in Communication Science on "Religiotainment – A Constructivist Grounded Theory of Christian Religion in Fictional Television Format" (2016) resulted from her work in the Excellence Cluster "Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Premodernity and Modernity" – also at the University of Münster. Digital and hybrid learning environments have been the focus of her work since 2017 – first as a researcher at the Stuttgart Media University and subsequently as the development coordinator of a study orientation platform at the University of Tübingen.