Project Lead & Parties involved
Administrative Division 2 Student Affairs: Robert Meile
Robert Meile has been the representative for students with disabilities/chronic illnesses and head of the Central Student Advisory Service and Psychological Counseling at the University of Potsdam since 2019. Within the project, he represents the field of student counseling. The work with study regulations in individual study planning, study (subject) counseling, and institutional curriculum planning is being systematized with regard to alternative, individually tailored study paths through the use of the assistance system to be developed. The focus is on cooperation with relevant actors in the sense of an inventory analysis, needs assessment, and support in testing the assistance system. Particular attention is paid to supporting students in special circumstances (e.g., with a disability or caregiving responsibilities) for whom the studyability of regulations may be limited.
Digital Engineering: Prof. Dr. Tobias Friedrich
Tobias Friedrich has been Professor of Algorithm Engineering at the Digital Engineering Faculty and the Hasso Plattner Institute since 2015. His research focuses on the theoretical foundations of algorithms, particularly in the fields of artificial intelligence and optimization. In the project, he is responsible for developing an aspect of the practical program in which the skills acquired are brought together and tested.
Computer Science: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lucke (Project Lead)
Ulrike Lucke has been Professor of Complex Multimedia Application Architectures at the Institute for Computer Science and Computational Science since 2010. Her research focuses on institutional IT infrastructures, particularly educational technology. Within the project, Ulrike Lucke is responsible for both project management and the subproject for the prototypical creation of the assistance system. These two strands of modeling and student advising are brought together in the “Assistance System” subproject. Here, the formalization of study regulations and their use in advising processes are used to develop an IT system that helps answer the above-mentioned questions in the respective contexts.
Computer Science: Prof. Dr. Torsten Schaub
Torsten Schaub has been Professor of Knowledge Processing and Information Systems at the Institute for Computer Science and Computational Science since 1997. His research ranges from theoretical foundations to the design and implementation of high-performance systems for processing incomplete, contradictory, and changing information.
Within the project, Torsten Schaub is responsible for identifying all solution spaces and optimizations in the complex interaction between the study regulations modeled in SemaLogic and the actual or optimal range of courses on offer. The quantitative and qualitative modeling of the Potsdam time window model, the consideration of disadvantage compensation, and the individual recommendations for the future course of study of individual students require the identification of explainable solution options in a large, fully parameterized data space.
Potsdam Graduate School: Dr. Bettina Buchholz
Bettina Buchholz has been involved in the cavas+ project since 2021. She is the director of the Potsdam Graduate School. She completed her doctorate in 2008 and obtained her degree in biology in 2005. She is the subproject manager for AP E (training)
Quality Management: Christopher Banditt
Christopher Banditt has been co-head of the Higher Education Studies department at the Center for Quality Development in Teaching and Learning (ZfQ) at the University of Potsdam since 2020, where he previously worked as a research assistant (with a break for a doctoral scholarship). Within the project, he represents the field of accreditation for existing and new study programs.
Project Team
Jonas Arndt
Dr. Stefan Lindow (Project Coordinator)
Stefan Lindow has been working on the CAVAS+ project at the Potsdam Graduate School since 2022 and has been working at the Chair of Complex Multimedia Application Architectures under Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lucke since 2024. Previously, he was a research assistant at the FernUniversität Hagen (2021-2022) and the University of Göttingen (2014-2020) for political science, where he received his doctorate in 2021 with a thesis on German copyright policy. He earned his Master of Arts in Political Science there in 2014 and his Bacchalaureus Artium in Political Science in 2010 at the University of Erfurt.
In the project, he coordinates the project team and manages the continuing education program for artificial intelligence for science.
Carsten Markowsky
Carsten Markowsky ist seit 2022 Mitarbeiter im CAVAS+-Projekt für das Zentrum für Qualitätsentwicklung in Lehre und Studium.
Lars Michel
Henry Chuks Otunuya
Henry Chukwunwike Otunuya, from the Institute of Informatik and Computational Science, has been working in the CAVAS+ project since 2021. Previously he worked as a web development course instructor from 2018 to 2019. He has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science since 2021 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, from Covenant University and Madonna University, Nigeria respectively.
Part of his responsibility within the project was the development of study regulations API which was based on the Answer Set Programming technology and the modelling of student regulations in the SemaLogic formal specification language.
Martin Reger
Martin Reger has been working on the CAVAS+ project at the Potsdam Graduate School since July 2025. Previously, he worked, among other positions, as a research assistant at the University of Potsdam from 2017 to 2019. He obtained his Master of Arts in Sociology in 2014 and his Bachelor of Arts in 2011, both from the University of Potsdam. At the Potsdam Graduate School, he is evaluating the workshop program “Künstliche Intelligenz für die Wissenschaft”. This includes a workshop on Symbolic AI and Learning with Semalogic, which builds on CAVAS+ and was co-developed there.
Magdalena Vock
Johannes Waldenberger
Johannes Waldenburger has been working on the CAVAS+ project since 2022. He also works in the field of accreditation at the Zentrum für Qualitätsentwicklung in Lehre und Studium at the University of Potsdam. In July 2020, he earned his Master of Arts in Educational Sciences from Freie Universität Berlin, and in June 2014, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Childhood Education from the FH Potsdam.