Since 03/2025 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tübingen
03/2022 – 02/2025 — Postdoctoral Researcher (Statistical Methods in Social Sciences), Faculty of Statistics, TU Dortmund University
11/2020 – 02/2025 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Research on Education and School Development (IFS), TU Dortmund University
10/2016 – 10/2020 — Research Associate, Chair of Econometrics and Quantitative Methods, University of Tübingen
Jakob Schwerter is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology and a member of the Hector Research Institute's „Startchancen" team. His research focuses on educational effectiveness (including policy analysis, educational trajectories, gender differences), self-regulated learning (with a focus on retrieval practice) and learning analytics (including educational data science). He works with his own data collections and secondary data from learners in primary, secondary and higher education. The central question in his research is how learners can be supported.
Before joining the Hector Research Institute, Jakob Schwerter worked as a postdoc at the Technical University of Dortmund (2020-2025), in particular in the FAIR profile area as an interdisciplinary interface between educational research and statistics. Prior to that, he was a doctoral student at the Chair of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in economics (2016-2020).
