Anja Henke
Academic associate
Academic and occupational background
seit 01/2026 | Research Associate at the professorship for school development, University of Potsdam |
Seit 09/2022 | Research Associate at the professorship for empirical research on instruction and schools, University of Potsdam |
11/2025-12/2026 | Visiting Scholar, Institute for Positive Psychology (IPPE), Australian Catholic University |
11/2025-12/2026 | Visiting Scholar, School of Education, University of Sydney |
09/2022-07/2023 | Research Associate at Cluster of Excellence „Science of Intelligence“ (TU Berlin) at the professorship for empirical research on instruction and schools, University of Potsdam |
10/2021-09/2022[AH1] | German Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium; Potsdamer Universitätsstipendium at Helmholtz Think Tank) |
09/2020-08/2022 | Research assistant at Cluster of Excellence „Science of Intelligence“ (TU Berlin), University of Potsdam |
10/2020-08/2022 | Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Teaching English and Geography at Upper Secondary Level, University of Potsdam (graduated with distinction) |
10/2019-08/2020 | Research assistant at the professorship for empirical research on instruction and schools, University of Potsdam |
05/2020-07/2020 | Language Tutor, Center for Languages and Key Competencies (Zessko), University of Potsdam |
10/2016-09/2020 | Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) in Teaching English and Geography at Secondary Level, University of Potsdam |
Research Interests:
- Emotions in learning environments
- Multimodal learning process data
- Adaptive learning technologies and social robots in education
Selected publications:
- Ackermann, H.*, Henke, A.*, Chevalère, J., Yun, H. S., Hafner, V. V., Pinkwart, N., & Lazarides, R. (2025). Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance. npj Science of Learning, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00293-z
* These authors contributed equally.
- Henke, A., Westphal, A., Hußner, I. & Lazarides, R. (2023). How do you feel reflecting on your teaching practice? Relations between student teachers’ teaching-related self-efficacy and emotion word use in written reflections on teaching situations. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-023-01186-4
- Chevalère, J., Yun, H. J., Henke, A., Pinkwart, N., Hafner, V. & Lazarides, R. (2023). A sequence of learning processes in an intelligent tutoring system from topic-related appraisals to learning gains. Learning and Instruction, 87, 101799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101799
- Chevalère, J., Lazarides, R., Yun, H. S., Henke, A., Lazarides, C., Pinkwart, N. & Hafner, V. (2023). Do instructional strategies considering activity emotions reduce students’ boredom in a computerized open-ended learning environment? Computers and Education, 196, 104741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2023.104741
Selected conference presentations:
- Henke, A., Harley, J. M., Matin, N., Lazarides. R. (2025, December 01-04). Situated multicomponent affective dynamics in computer-based learning. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) 2025, Newcastle, Australia.
- Henke, A., Harley, J. M., Matin, N., Lazarides. R. (2025, August 25-29). Arousal and traits matter more than states: Situated emotions in technology-enhanced learning. In A. Hawrot. (Chair), Emotions in educational settings: Developmental trends and antecedents [Symposium]. European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) 2025, Graz, Austria.
- Henke, A., Chevalère, J., Omarchevska, Y., Yun, H. S., Pinkwart, N., Hafner, V., Lazarides, R. (2024, August 28-30). Behavioral profiles, motivation and emotions in an intelligent tutoring system. In A. Henke & R. Lazarides (Chairs) Multimodal research on emotion, motivation, and self-regulation in education [Symposium]. International Conference on Motivation & Emotion (ICM) 2024, Bern, Switzerland.
- Henke, A., Chevalère, J., Westphal, A., Yun, H. S., Pinkwart, N., Hafner, V., Lazarides, R. (2024, July 18-20). Gender-related perceptions of robotic tutoring agents in human-robot interaction. In R. Lazarides (Chair). Symposium to Gender and STEM in the context of artificial intelligence [Symposium]. Network Gender & STEM Conference 2024, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Henke, A., Westphal, A., Hußner, I., Lazarides, R. (2023, August 22-26). Changes in student teachers’ self-efficacy and relations to emotion words in written reflections [Paper Presentation]. European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Teaching:
Courses of the current semester can be found in the course catalog on PULS.