Dr. Jakob Schwerter
Mail: jakob.schwerter@uni-tuebingen.de
Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology
Phone: 07071/29-74385
Europastraße 6 / Walter‑Simon‑Straße 12 | Room 206
University of Tübingen
72072 Tübingen, Germany

The campus of TU Dortmund University is located close to interstate junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dortmund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is “Dortmund-Eichlinghofen” (closer to South Campus), and from B 1 / A 40 “Dortmund-Dorstfeld” (closer to North Campus). Signs for the university are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dortmund.
To get from North Campus to South Campus by car, there is the connection via Vogelpothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at North Campus and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.
TU Dortmund University has its own train station (“Dortmund Universität”). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dortmund main station (“Dortmund Hauptbahnhof”) and Düsseldorf main station via the “Düsseldorf Airport Train Station” (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 15 or 30 minutes). The university is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.
You can also take the bus or subway train from Dortmund city to the university: From Dortmund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station “Stadtgarten”, usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At “Stadtgarten” you switch trains and get on line U42 towards “Hombruch”. Look out for the Station “An der Palmweide”. From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dortmund University leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dortmund main station to the stop “Dortmund Kampstraße”. From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop “Dortmund Wittener Straße”. Switch to bus line 447 and get off at “Dortmund Universität S”.
The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Dortmund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dortmund Central Station, you can continue to the university campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of international flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the university station.
The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dortmund University. There are two stations on North Campus. One (“Dortmund Universität S”) is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the university directly with the city of Dortmund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the “Technologiepark” and (via South Campus) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at North Campus and offers a direct connection to South Campus every five minutes.
The facilities of TU Dortmund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent “Technologiepark”.
Site Map of TU Dortmund University (Second Page in English).

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Mail: jakob.schwerter@uni-tuebingen.de
Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology
Phone: 07071/29-74385
Europastraße 6 / Walter‑Simon‑Straße 12 | Room 206
University of Tübingen
72072 Tübingen, Germany

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).